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On Monday 27 September 2004 11:48, Tom Brough wrote:
And as a final shot across the bows on software freedom day this group had a BBQ in Cornwall (this isn't a bad thing BTW ... Good to socialise and everything). I spent the day packing as many recycled computers into boxes as I could possibly afford to, ready to send to schools in the Philippines. Now ask yourself which is going to bring more users (and possibly code contributors) to the GNU/Linux fold ? In real terms what would it have cost us to get a few T-Shirts made up, burnt off or got mass produced a large number of Knoppix discs with contact details on them, and then gone out into the streets and just handed them to people. Curiosity and the law of averages should suggest that we would have got a certain % on new comers and if not at least raised the profile of GNU/Linux. This could have been arranged through UKLUG with some central funding / distribution and co-ordinated effort focused around software freedom day. I think sadly this is another missed opportunity, but then as usual this is just MHO.
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