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| desertc | 31 users here and no one can say what the home page is... | 01:33 |
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| desertc | Hope to talk to you all soon. | 01:33 |
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| posingaspopular | hey all. I'm trying to put together an event with nixternal to promote the use/installation of Gutsy Gibbon to the general population (instead of the all geeky install fest we threw this weekend) and get some more people in Chicago excited about FOSS/Gutsy in general. any thoughts? | 06:04 |
| boredandblogging | posingaspopular: we are trying to think about the same thing in georgia and not having much luck | 06:09 |
| posingaspopular | boredandblogging: yay, we can work together | 06:09 |
| posingaspopular | i was thinking of a install fest at a local uni along with passing out free software cds at various other schools | 06:09 |
| boredandblogging | yeah, but that seems to attract the same geeky types | 06:10 |
| posingaspopular | i sent out an email asking for people I knew (chicago gnu/linux users group, chipy, linux users of northern illinois (luni), etc), if they had any suggestions, and/or contacts in the local media schools etc. | 06:10 |
| posingaspopular | the problem is promoting it outside of the same geek circles (as fun as that is) and spreading it to general computer users | 06:11 |
| posingaspopular | which takes resources that the loco's dont really have | 06:11 |
| boredandblogging | right, there used to be general purpose UGs before, but most of them have been replaced by specialized UGs | 06:12 |
| boredandblogging | looking through sites like meetup.com, there are groups that are interested in building web sites, that might be a start | 06:13 |
| posingaspopular | yea, but im going to argue (and hope that im not proven wrong) that just because a UG is specialized, it doesnt mean that other UG's wont help | 06:13 |
| posingaspopular | a bigger pie for everyone is better than no pie at all ;p | 06:13 |
| boredandblogging | true, best shot might be doing presentations at different UGs | 06:15 |
| boredandblogging | but its a time consuming process | 06:15 |
| boredandblogging | and requires man power | 06:15 |
| posingaspopular | we've been doing that for years here, or at least trying | 06:18 |
| posingaspopular | im fairly confident that we can get enough volunteers to help us talk to people about free software | 06:19 |
| posingaspopular | the problem is getting non techies to an event | 06:19 |
| boredandblogging | yeah | 06:19 |
| boredandblogging | think that is everyone's problem | 06:20 |
| posingaspopular | hmm... anyone else around that has a few words they can throw in | 06:21 |
| posingaspopular | boredandblogging: how is the georgia team treating you? | 06:55 |
| boredandblogging | posingaspopular: not too bad | 07:32 |
| boredandblogging | we have a release party tomorrow night | 07:32 |
| boredandblogging | and an install fest coming up | 07:32 |
| posingaspopular | nice! we just had one (if you've been reading nixternal's blag) and im busting my butt to give Ubu-chi some more momenutm | 07:33 |
| posingaspopular | i thought i would pop into the -marketing chan to see what I could do about it | 07:33 |
| boredandblogging | posingaspopular: very cool | 07:43 |
| posingaspopular | apparently more people in the area use ubuntuforums than I thought. they were all complaining that their is no activity in the area, wanting to go to install fests, etc. and there were 20+ people in the chan trying to do their thing. exciting! | 07:44 |
| posingaspopular | <-bed | 08:13 |
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| juliux | hi all | 18:10 |
| juliux | ubuntu will be again in the german television tomorrow | 18:10 |
| Burgundavia | very cool | 18:12 |
| Burgundavia | get us a clip | 18:12 |
| juliux | we will record it with mythtv | 18:12 |
| juliux | and i will upload it | 18:12 |
| Burgundavia | very cool | 18:14 |
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| desertc | Do we have any "Ubuntu in the newspaper" references? | 20:36 |
| posingaspopular | desertc: i think there were a few for the chicago loco install fest, yu have to check with richard johnson abhout that | 20:42 |
| desertc | posingaspopular: thanks | 20:43 |
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