There's an Anarchist Bookfair in Norwich in June. http://twotins.tripod.com/onesolutionanarchistrevolution/id21.html Does anyone (especially anyone with experience of ABs or Norwich Anarchists) want to try selling at-cost CDs of free software at this? Do we have any freebies we could give out? If there's interest, I'll help, but I can't be in Norwich that day IIRC.
On Thursday 29 Apr 2004 11:48 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
There's an Anarchist Bookfair in Norwich in June. http://twotins.tripod.com/onesolutionanarchistrevolution/id21.htm l Does anyone (especially anyone with experience of ABs or Norwich Anarchists) want to try selling at-cost CDs of free software at this? Do we have any freebies we could give out? If there's interest, I'll help, but I can't be in Norwich that day IIRC.
This could be fun. I'm up for it (if I'm in the UK that w/e). I do have some experience of fiery anarchists :-)
Also, I'd be willing to make a donation towards the hire of the stall and provide some CDs (knoppix may be the safest simplest introduction?)
Someone else can provide the Special Brew although we do have a scrawny little dog and I can look for a bit of string - and I even have a cassette of the Levellers somewhere so that's my street cred sorted :-)
Anyone else interested?
Hi. Sorry it's taken a while to respond to this - been a bit frantic for various reasons.
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 06:49, Syd Hancock wrote:
On Thursday 29 Apr 2004 11:48 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
There's an Anarchist Bookfair in Norwich in June. http://twotins.tripod.com/onesolutionanarchistrevolution/id21.htm l Does anyone (especially anyone with experience of ABs or Norwich Anarchists) want to try selling at-cost CDs of free software at this? Do we have any freebies we could give out? If there's interest, I'll help, but I can't be in Norwich that day IIRC.
This could be fun. I'm up for it (if I'm in the UK that w/e). I do have some experience of fiery anarchists :-)
Also, I'd be willing to make a donation towards the hire of the stall and provide some CDs (knoppix may be the safest simplest introduction?)
As it happens I live just round the corner from Waterloo park, and I'm planning to attend anyway.
I'm up for burning some CDs - don't really want to take a loss on them though so I'd probably want to flog them for 50p a CD or something. I was thinking of maybe Knoppix, because of the no-scary-install thing and (more) because it only needs one CD. Dunno how many I'll be able to do - better fire up the burner I guess.
Does someone have some materials (leaflets, display etc)? I don't mind chipping for a stall, although I'm not sure I'd want to spend all day staffing it. Is there one booked? If not I can probably blag some space on someone else's.
Cheers,
Joe
btw Syd, thanks for the CDs.
On 2004-05-20 13:11:57 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
I was thinking of maybe Knoppix, because of the no-scary-install thing and (more) because it only needs one CD. Dunno how many I'll be able to do - better fire up the burner I guess.
Maybe try some Morphix instead, to give a bit more choice (and be free software)?
Does someone have some materials (leaflets, display etc)?
I have leaflets/fliers for AFFS, FSF Europe, GNUstep and OpenGroupware. I have PDFs for ALUG, which probably want updating. Just tell me how many you want of what and I'll deliver them when next in Norwich. If you want something in particular, I can reorder stuff that I've run out of, or produce something to match.
I don't mind chipping for a stall, although I'm not sure I'd want to spend all day staffing it. Is there one booked? If not I can probably blag some space on someone else's.
No, nothing booked as far as I know, because both Syd and myself thought we might be away.
Hi.
On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:32, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-05-20 13:11:57 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
I was thinking of maybe Knoppix, because of the no-scary-install thing and (more) because it only needs one CD.
Maybe try some Morphix instead, to give a bit more choice (and be free software)?
Just had a quick look at the Morphix website - looks very interesting, but I'm not sure what its advantages are over Knoppix for handing out as a demo CD. Seems like it's for making specialised boot CDs, whereas Knoppix is trying to be all things to all people, which probably fits the bill better. Maybe I've misunderstood since I only spent about 30 seconds on the Morphix site.
Does someone have some materials (leaflets, display etc)?
I have leaflets/fliers for AFFS, FSF Europe, GNUstep and OpenGroupware. I have PDFs for ALUG, which probably want updating. Just tell me how many you want of what and I'll deliver them when next in Norwich. If you want something in particular, I can reorder stuff that I've run out of, or produce something to match.
I'd be interested in the ALUG PDF - couldn't see any reference to them on the ALUG site. Don't mind doing the actual updating but probably not familiar enough with the group to actually know what needs doing. Maybe someone could email it or let me know where I can download it.
I don't mind chipping for a stall, although I'm not sure I'd want to spend all day staffing it. Is there one booked? If not I can probably blag some space on someone else's.
No, nothing booked as far as I know, because both Syd and myself thought we might be away.
So is it just going to be me then (in which case it won't be much of me)?
Joe
On Friday 21 May 2004 1:38 am, Joe Button wrote:
On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:32, MJ Ray wrote:
Maybe try some Morphix instead, to give a bit more choice (and be free software)?
IMHO MandrakeMove would also be useful. It has the virtue of being able to remove the CD so that you can, for example, burn a CD. AFAIK the community edition doesn't contain any non-free s/w.
Syd
On 2004-05-21 01:38:14 +0100 Joe Button alug@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
Just had a quick look at the Morphix website - looks very interesting, but I'm not sure what its advantages are over Knoppix for handing out as a demo CD. Seems like it's for making specialised boot CDs, [...]
No, there are ISOs too. Advantages of Morphix: 1. an ALUGger is involved and we should support each other; 2. recent versions of it work on my trickiest machine, while Knoppix still doesn't; 3. it aims to be 100% free software; 4. there are different flavour ISOs based on Morphix available: Gnome, KDE, GNUstep, Light, Games;
Maybe I've forgot some since I only spent about 30 seconds thinking about them...
I'd be interested in the ALUG PDF - couldn't see any reference to them on the ALUG site.
It's out of date, but at http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2001a/alug-gen.pdf or alug-jul02.pdf -- I should have source code somewhere around here, which I'll email to whoever. It's probably in tex, but it's only the text to fix.
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