[wplug] .Net Launch

[Douglas Green]

OK- here are my 2 cents on publicity. My call for volunteers to help me
fix up computers and donate them in Mexico was met with mixed reactions.
So far there are a couple people interested in contributing (hooray for
us!!:) ). I am currently working on getting a non-profit (NPO) status,
complete with tax ID number, for this project (unnamed as of yet- taking
suggestions). This is a lot of work, and it's also not my dayjob.
Although the timing may be a little late for the .NET seminar- what
BETTER way to publicize linux than to demonstrate its superiority in a
charitable way? IMHO, put your best foot forward and show everyone what
linux can provide that others cannot. Its open source, free, has
multilingual support, a huge worldwide technical support network (that
would be us- the LUGs of the world), runs on damn near any old hardware,
and there are tons of available apps to suit any occasion. I think this
would be a great ongoing community service effort worthy of some
publicity for our group and other LUGS who want to contribute. 

Doug

Please direct flames to /dev/null

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Rob Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:23 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: RE: [wplug] .Net Launch

If people want to organize a promo-drive, why not do something like an 
installfest in the Penn that weekend? Personally, I think it's both
childish 
and wasteful to spend your time wearing a penguin shirt and handing out
CD's 
to people who will take the CD just to be an asshole cause it costs you,
not 
them. Spend your time on *real* propoganda :)

Rob Nelson
ronelson at vt.edu

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