Would have to agree here.
Interesting idea would be to fill up the back of a pickup truck with
10-20 486's. Take a tour of local youth groups (boy scouts, girl
scouts, etc.). Have them plug in a couple of cards, plug in the monitor
and load Linux. Your primary audience would be much more attentive and
appreciative. And of course you have a secondary "captive" audience,
the parents, who just happen to be the moms and pops.
This would be fun.
Teach the children, and then be patient.
George Gallen wrote:
>
> Please don't get me wrong, it's a great idea, and one worth
> possible pursuit, just keep that in the back of your head (liability).
>
> If your going to do something like that, try to go through
> your local civic associations, having a reputable backing
> will help reenforce trust.
>
> people will over scutinize something for free vs something that is cheap.
>
> I once tried to give away a TV at a ham fest, people would
> pick it up, look inside, smell it, ask if it worked, stepped
> backed, looked at it sideways...it stayed for over an hour.
>
> Finally, I placed a $1.00 sign on it and it sold in 5 minutes
> no questions asked.....people can be funny.
>
> So if a group in itself is stating that they will offer their
> services for free, people may wonder WHY? Aren't they good
> enough to sell their services? What's wrong with the programs
> that they are free. I understand GPL, you understand GPL, but
> does mom & pop?
>
> Volunteering is a great thing, I was in EMS for 10 years and
> wouldn't have traded for anything.
>
> George
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ">tewkewl@mindspring.com [mailto:">tewkewl@mindspring.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:48 PM
> >To: George Gallen
> >Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> >Subject: Re: RE: [ale] Re: Interested in Linux
> >
> >
> >Well... I'm sure we could put something together that stated
> >various things about us not being liable...etc etc... This
> >wouldn't be enterprise level stuff... I would imagine it would
> >be mom and pop and medium size businesses. Just to get linux
> >in the community..
> >
> >-Patrick
> >
> >George Gallen ">ggallen@slackinc.com> wrote:
> >> Unfortunatly, in today's lawyer infested society, even if
> >your services
> >were free, that probably wouldn't protect you from being pulled into
> >court if something went wrong, regardless if was due to the services
> >provided or not.
> >
> >shame.
> >
> >George
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: ">tewkewl@mindspring.com [mailto:">tewkewl@mindspring.com]
> >>Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 1:41 PM
> >>To: Dow Hurst
> >>Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> >>Subject: Re: [ale] Re: Interested in Linux
> >>
> >>
> >>Dude, I would be all over that shit in a heart beat.... Count
> >>me in... you do all the admin work on setting it up though....
> >> I suck at paper work!
> >>
> >>-Patrick
> >>
> >>Dow Hurst wrote:
> >>> I like the idea of ale members forming a road team to renovate
> >>businesses technology to Linux. Wouldn't that be something to see! A
> >>free highly trained technology team traveling from business to
> >>business implementing tremendous cost saving improvements. Sounds to
> >>me like a wonderful charitable organization that needs to grow out of
> >>ALE! Of course, is anyone interested....
> >>
> >>Wouldn't Microsoft have a tough time countering that kind of charity?
> >>(^v^) I love the idea!!!!
> >>Dow
> >>
> >>My wife and I hosted a Japanese student for a week thru a local
> >>churches homestay program. We thoroughly enjoyed having her in our
> >>home and I, of course, got a look at her laptop computer. They call a
> >>laptop in Japan a "notepersonalcon", pronounced as fast as you can say
> >>it. She had some neat little faces, such as the one above, that I had
> >>never seen before. I introduced her to Linux and she was certain that
> >>my laptop running Linux was much smarter than other American computers
> >>since I got Netscape Communicator to display Kanji. I got the
> >>impression that the Japanese students consider their computers smarter
> >>than American computers since they have three languages built into
> >>their OS and hardware.
> >>
> >>I am interested in producing Japanese characters for email and such.
> >>Anyone have ideas on how to setup Linux to produce other languages.
> >>How do you overcome the English keyboard problem? Are there
> >>multilingual keyboards available for sale here in America? I've just
> >>never run across one before. Thanks,
> >>Dow
> >>
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