On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, MJ Ray wrote:
National coordination will allow us to raise the the profile of Install Day events and to promote Linux and Open Source software to Businesses and the public. We aim to achieve national press coverage and sponsorship (approaches have been made to O'Reilly and Mandrake).
Well yeah lets go for it, but I still don't like the term "install day" we should really have an "awareness day" whereby you can get an install too.
It may be even better to call it "Linux day" to just raise profile and awareness of GNU/Linux (although we should also perhaps be thinking of other Free and alternative OS), just I don't like the idea of doing installs on other peoples machines who don't know *anything* about linux and are doing it just because they heard it was cool as if you cause them any subsequent data loss or put an OS on there machine that they don't really want or need then you are harming the acceptance of linux in the UK.
Anyway in short lets do it, UEA would be great although should we perhaps as a group maybe have 2 seperate meetings on that day? One in Norfolk and one in Suffolk? I presume CamLug will be doing this also as they have had an install day before in the basement of CB2...
Adam