[wellylug] FW: [opensourcenz] Fw: [dunlug] Publicity

Klenner, Colin colin.klenner at eds.com
Mon Nov 5 13:14:40 NZDT 2001


Don has included the contact details for the Dunedin LUG.

He seesm to indocate they have several distros from other vendors as well as
Mandrake. I will ask him for more information for us.

Colin 

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Jones [mailto:don.jones at linuxmail.org]
Sent: Monday, 5 November 2001 1:05
To: opensourcenz at egressive.co.nz
Subject: [opensourcenz] Fw: [dunlug] Publicity


I have taken the liberty of forwarding a message posted today on the DunLUG
mailing list, as Openz list members may find it relevant.(as this is an OSS
advocacy list and Linux is OSS I believe this to be ontopic).

Regards

Don Jones

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Whittle <drew at blackalbatross.com>
Sent: 05 Nov 2001 10:10:19 +1300
To: dunlug at ethernal.org
Subject: [dunlug]  Publicity

Hi Everyone,

FYI:

Bruce Simpson runs a daily net news commentary site at
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/, last week he challenged M/S to supply him
with a copy of XP for his torture test.

He has heard nothing from them.

Today he issued a challenge to any Linux vendor to supply a copy of
Linux for his torture test.

I have responded and told him that DunLUG will send him any of the
distro's that we have silvers of. (Mandrake, TurboLinux, Caldera,
RedHat)

I'll let you all know if he takes us up on the offer.

On the topic of publicity, I have been planning for a month and a half
or so to get a bit of information together on what I propose we do with
all the CD's that vendors have sent us, but I haven't had time as yet.

Basically I want to make the offer to all schools that qualify under the
MS/Government (now that looks scary, MS/Government 1.0 guarntee'd to
sned and receive "nukes") a free copy of one of the distro's. They would
have to send us the cost of postage (in stamps perhaps) and we send back
a distro.

We would let IDG, Computerworld, etc know and hopfully they will publish
a story on it.

The plan is to have this all written up and fancy forms on the website,
but before I go to all that trouble what do people think?


:D


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