<font face="garamond,serif">I can do research tomorrow evening. Tonight, I have too much to do.<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Terence J. Golightly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terencejgolightly@gmail.com" target="_blank">terencejgolightly@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 08/15/2012 05:09 PM, Pat Barron wrote:<br>
> I keep meaning to call Monroeville Mall to see if we can use a kiosk<br>
> there - though in that environment, I doubt we'd be able to do any<br>
> actual installs (it's not like people are going to bring their gear into<br>
> the mall....), it'd be more of a PR / awareness thing, being able to<br>
> give away distros so people can tinker with them, show them "Big Buck<br>
> Bunny"<br>
<br>
</div>Jim Harris had that running intermittently on his laptop last year.<br>
Last year worked okay for us.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
and such (or other things that were made using Linux that we can<br>
> trot out), etc. I haven't gotten a chance during the work day so far<br>
> this week, unfortunately. I'm still sort of at a loss for what other<br>
> venues we might chase after that would have a good amount of "random<br>
> traffic", people who would not otherwise be aware of free software.<br>
> Plus also, the mall (like many other larger venues we might pursue that<br>
> would have a lot of people, I'm sure...) would not have network access<br>
> for us - so people wouldn't really be able to do installs on-site unless<br>
> they were satisfied with whatever comes off of our distribution media<br>
> and did their updates at home (unless someone wanted to bring a MiFi -<br>
> but I don't know who'd volunteer to pay for the data usage that would<br>
> incur).<br>
<br>
><br>
> Not trying to be discouraging of the idea of a "mini-installfest" or<br>
> anything - I just think that a lot of the value of our Software Freedom<br>
> Day activity (whatever it turns out to be) is going to be in catching<br>
> the interest of people who aren't familiar with FOSS at all (which is<br>
> why I think it's helpful to do it in a place where people are already<br>
> gathered for some other reason, like shopping - so Pittsburgh Public<br>
> Market is good on that score, too), so the people we talk to aren't<br>
> going to have their equipment and such with them - they won't have been<br>
> expecting to come across our Software Freedom Day activity, but<br>
> hopefully it'll be a happy coincidence for them. ;-)<br>
<br>
</div>True, actually if they have there hardware in the car, we could help<br>
them use the media we hand out :-).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> What is the actual date you have in mind?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>How about the next to last or last Saturday in September.<br>
<br>
> --Pat.<br>
><br>
Terry<br>
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