[ale] membership drive

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Jason van Gumster <
jason at handturkeystudios.com> wrote:

>
> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How can we leverage the talent we have for extending the community use of
> > Linux while broadening the ALE user base? Bake sale? Door-to-door "Can I
> > talk to you about using Linux?" campaigns? Throw an annual "We use
> Linux!"
> > party and invite every comp-sci major for 100 miles? Adopt a school and
> > maintain their computers for students and teachers using nothing but
> Linux?
> > Offer free classes in how to use different application in most distros as
> > replacements for welded-hood applications? Outreach to women specifically
> > how?
>
> While kiosk-setup (for the "only web+email" crowd) and deluging CS/SA
> folks are
> pretty obvious and worthwhile targets, there's quite a few segments of
> [potential] Linux enthusiasts outside these groups. There's been quite a
> bit of
> overlap with the tinkerer/maker crowd, for instance. You also have DIY HTPC
> folks. And I'm sure that there's at least one or two jerks like me who use
> Linux and other FOSS tools for creative pursuits (e.g. animation, graphics,
> writing). Perhaps it would be worth having even just meeting presentations
> on
> these things?
>

That would be great! Sort of a "Creative Penguin Class". We've had some
music editing with SOX a while back, My son did some stop-motion animation
using Cinnelerra.


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