<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Jason van Gumster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@handturkeystudios.com" target="_blank">jason@handturkeystudios.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> How can we leverage the talent we have for extending the community use of<br>
> Linux while broadening the ALE user base? Bake sale? Door-to-door "Can I<br>
> talk to you about using Linux?" campaigns? Throw an annual "We use Linux!"<br>
> party and invite every comp-sci major for 100 miles? Adopt a school and<br>
> maintain their computers for students and teachers using nothing but Linux?<br>
> Offer free classes in how to use different application in most distros as<br>
> replacements for welded-hood applications? Outreach to women specifically<br>
> how?<br>
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</div>While kiosk-setup (for the "only web+email" crowd) and deluging CS/SA folks are<br>
pretty obvious and worthwhile targets, there's quite a few segments of<br>
[potential] Linux enthusiasts outside these groups. There's been quite a bit of<br>
overlap with the tinkerer/maker crowd, for instance. You also have DIY HTPC<br>
folks. And I'm sure that there's at least one or two jerks like me who use<br>
Linux and other FOSS tools for creative pursuits (e.g. animation, graphics,<br>
writing). Perhaps it would be worth having even just meeting presentations on<br>
these things?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be great! Sort of a "Creative Penguin Class". We've had some music editing with SOX a while back, My son did some stop-motion animation using Cinnelerra. <br>
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