At 01:16 AM 1/10/2003, you wrote:
>Someone just gave me an idea offlist that might be worth following up
>on. The idea would be to give newbies at meetings demo CDs. Something
>where they could run it and it wouldn't mess with their Windows
>machines. We'd have a show of hands of newbies at the beginning, and
>then announce that we have free demo disks for them. This would require
>having quite a few disks, most likely Knoppix, since it seems to be the
>most mature distro that will run totally off your CD. If someone's
>willing to burn a bunch of these, we could implement the idea. It could
>also be used in newspaper ads and such to get newbies to meetings.
>
>Paul
The Demo CD idea does work. For a speech class at St. Pete College I did
"Free Beer software vs. Free Speech software" and offered Linux demo CDs at
the end. I ran out of CDs! Everyone in the class wanted one. At the next
class several students said they tried it.
Yo' Photo Man
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