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Re: Newbie help, and public relations.



Hi,

On Sun, 17 May 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I won't filter out newbie questions. Seeing the proliferation of
> > the windoze non-OSes, I think the more people using Linux would increase its
> > viability as a an alternative, and this group can do its share by helping
> > people, who find the learning curve of Linux too steep, pass that hump.
> 
> I wish they would come out of the woodworks then. Here in Silicon Valley,
> the SVLUG arranges installfests at LEAST once a month, the last two
> arranged in an arena the size of a basketball court (!). We need a few
> dozen newbies to justify opening a list, we need a dozen programmers to
> justify opening another, we need to pull LOTS of people out there in
> Israel that use linux but are not on linux-il because the topics here are
> so broad. We need to simply make ourselvs known!

I'm organizing an Installation Party every semester. If more of you will
come and help around it may give a better look on Linux. Last time I had
nobody around me who could configure X for a misbehaving ATI card. So I
had to delay other people in order to solve that problem. Being known
starts with public relations, and public relations start where we
physically show ourselves.

> linux-il is not a great public relations - oriented bunch of guys. We
> don't have enough installfests, no "serious" meetings took place in over a
> year, and it's really hard to get people to even organize for dinners. I
> believe the real way of pushing things is have a monthly lecture/open
> discussion somewhere in Tel Aviv, publish it on the net in some strategic
> sites or even papers (YES, it may cost some money if we don't have
> reporter friends) like a press release, and start doing things to attract
> the public at large.

I'd be happy to arrange a lecture hall with equipment and everything in
case some of you want to give a lecture. As for a reporter friend, I have
one, and I can give him any texts you want published. I offered this once
before, yet no one seemed to care.

> I'd expect the majority of the topics above will yield a "false" resault
> when put to the test. I'm willing to write some professional looking press
> releases "on behalf of the Israeli LUG" (though we would do better by
> finding an Israeli as the official rep), and start sending weekly or
> bi-weekly press releases to the big papers' computer section editors. I
> believe we need headlines like "Gimp, is this the death of photoshop?" or
> "Corel completely ignores MS in new line of products, a brave briliant
> move?" and so on. 

Ira, If you can write some press material, I can make it appear in local
computer magazines, and if I push it hard, even into Ma'ariv. Anyone else
who might want to contribute?

Shachar.



Shachar Tal
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Taub Computer Center, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
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