On Monday 11 April 2005 20:17, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > Hi > > this is a good opportunity to market OOo to non-profits which are > showing up to look at FLOSS solutions. I am going to be going to > this even tomorrow in Oakland, CA, USA. > > http://bayarea.penguinday.org/
So I did go to this event, and I'm very glad that I did. I'll be writing an article for MadPenguin.org about the experience. For the purposes of this list, I wanted to thank John Lorance of Compumentor for doing a great "speed geek" demo of OOo for the 50 or so people who were present at the event. Speed geeking is the practice of dividing a larger group up into a series of small groups, who then rotate from booth to booth for a brief and intense intro into the software. John Lorance handled the OOo table. He did a great job of showcasing OOo 2.0. I would strongly recommend that our marketing leads consider partnering with Aspiration for the purpose of promoting these events. www.aspirationtech.org OOo is really best when presented in a mix of other FOSS apps to non-profits. This event was a great step toward getting OOo in front of a natural group of users. Open source and non profits are a natural mix, and so Dan Gun (aka Gunner) and Kartin Verclas have done a brilliant job of bringing non-profits together with FOSS advocates. Some of the software shown there was simply brilliant as well. This event was also a personal landmark for me because I got to meet Oso Martin (accent over the i not possible in kmail), who is the founder of Freegeek.org. I love free geek because it combines the education of software libre with recycling old computers and repurposing old computers. Free Geek basically installs debian and OOo on computers and gives them away. How good is that? Christian Einfeldt 415-351-1300 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
