[Aslug] (ASLUG) Ideas that were tossed around 11th May meeting

[WARvault]

Hi everyone,
I decided to belt out an email tonight, hopefully keep some of the
momentum from the LUG meeting going.

We DO want more ASLUGgers but who do we want them to be? Do we want
every Alice Springs Linux user? Every computer power-user (whatever
that means)? What about people with Android phones and Linksys routers
but use Vista to flash 3rd-party roms to them? Frankly I get what I
want from the ASLUG meetings, I get my nerd on! Still I put forward
the Todd Market stall idea because I can't imagine people turning up
to anything really, regarding Linux (who doesn't already). So
passers-by seeing Firefox, and VLC running on hardware can think to
themselves "why in hell do I pay for the underlying OS when all the
stuff I run is FOSS?". From there it seems like trivial step to
replace "Windows+Firefox+Thunderbird+MediaPlayer+VLC" with "Mint 9
LTS+Firefox+Thunderbird+Totem+VLC". It would also give us (ME!!!)  an
ASLUG activity to participate in twice a month (three times a month if
you count the LUG as well...)

Now there might be clouds to this idea that I can't see past the
silver lining. Supporting "teh n00bz" is one right off the bat, but
thats kind of what I think a LUG is for amirite?

And money, I don't have any and I don't want any of yours! Do we get
any from linux.au? Or any other FOSS organisation? Do we have to (try
and) sell Windows editions of LibreOffice, GIMP, OpenArena, etc, etc,
etc, to cover the costs of our stall? Etc, etc, etc...

Anyway discuss!

Bill