[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Demo Day 99

[Steve Baker]

MadHat wrote:

> I think there are a couple ideas getting worked together, whether they
> were supposed to be or not, I can't tell.
> 
> 1.  Linux Demo Day
>         "Show it off to anyone and everyone."
>     Getting a loc and all is good, but how do you let the public know.
> Most of the people here know what Linux is, so it would not be a huge
> help just talking about it here.  Also, what would make this different
> from like what was done, I think last month, at the meeting where there
> were just machines set up for people to see?

That's interesting for Linux users - but boring for Joe Q. Public.

>  What would make this
> special becides having a more public location?  I am by no means saying
> it is a bad idea (I like the idea), but how do you let people know they
> can come chek it out?  Flyers?  Newspaper ads?  Get a corporate sponcer
> and do TV commercials?  Call all the local TV and Radio stations and ask
> for it to be mentioned on any public calandars?

You announce that a bunch of lunatics are going to set a world
record and try to write a computer game in 24 hours!

You set that up in the place where the most computer users are
likely to be gathered in one place on a Saturday morning. The
foyer at Fry's (if they'll let us do that).

I think we could get local TV coverage for such an event.
 
> 2.  Code that game in 24hrs or less.
>         that other item.  I personally think this should
> not be at the same location and time as the LDD from above.

The *only* point in doing such a crazy thing would be precisely
to get people to stop and look instead of being annoyed by
someone with a Penguin on his T-shirt giving you a flier.

Create a media event...make people stop and look. Make them
WANT to find out more.  Have a guy composing music for the
game.  Let people play the half-finished thing on a huge
projection TV borrowed from the store...let them know that
they are helping us out by "play-testing" the new game.

So the "two" ideas become one.  We do something to make a
big media splash - and then having got people suckered into
listening to us, we hit them with serious information advice,
whatever to promote Linux.

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