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Software Freedom Day – Proposed Flyer

murph — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:22:17 +0000

Well, it’s a day later that I was shooting for, but here’s a draft of the flyer for Software Freedom Day. I’d really like to hear some feedback on the flyer, as well as proposed demonstrations and/or presentations that folks would like to do, so that I can include them. So please let me know what you think.sfd_flyer-1

I was not able to upload the original Scribus desktop publishing file, probably because it looks like straight XML. If anyone wants it to remix and/or make corrections, just let me know.

Addition: I’ve gotten a ton of great suggestions from an Amiga mailing list that I’m a part of, and have the following revision to the flyer: sfd_flyer-3

I personally think that it’s a little information dense, a little too wordy. I welcome suggestions to improve it.

Addition2: Thanks to Zak for some layout suggestions for an alternate, cleaner layout: sfd_flyer-4

Software Freedom Day.

murph — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:48:56 +0000

For those of you that are interested, please get back to me quickly, waiting until the next meeting, on August 25th would seem to be too late. We need for volunteers to find and get detailed information on a venue to hold SFD. A place with a lot of foot traffic that may at least have some interest in technology would be good. We will need power, and prefereably internet access. (this is not essntial) The date is for Septermber 18th, so we need to get moving now if we are to get some publicity for the event. http://softwarefreedomday.org/

UPDATE: Sam has done some great work and found out that we can reserve the meeting room (while it’s still available) up until the 18th of August. We’ll have the room from 1-4:45. So, we have a meeting place, in the Morris County Library, if we have the support of the members to go ahead. So, who is game? We will need people to promote the event, so that we have some traffic this year. Last year we were there, but the public didn’t know about us. Can anyone step forward with some good ideas and action to make Software Freedom Day a success?

Convention Season!

murph — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:24:46 +0000

Had a great time at Southeast Linux Fest last weekend. Short week of work, and off to Fosscon this coming weekend. I’ll talk a little about the two conventions at the upcoming meeting.

Introduction to Free and Open Source Software – Boonton 2010-04-20

murph — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:07:17 +0000

The NJ Linux user’s group would like to announce a brief presentation
of “An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software”

It will be held at the Boonton Holmes Library at 6:30 on Tuesday the 20th.
We’ll spend an hour going through the following: A quick
demonstration of some Free applications for Windows, OpenOffice.org,
and The GNU Image Manipulation Program. Then we’ll take a look at
Linux, a free operating system, as well as a quick overview of some
applications available for Linux. This will be followed by a question
and answer session. Updates and more details can be found at
http://njlinux.org and email questions can be addressed to
linux @ murph.info.

Edit: I’ve included the flyer that I’ve been distributing here: open-3

Edit2: Here are the slides that I’m planning on showing. Suggestions welcome. pres1

Success! Many thanks.

murph — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:02:43 +0000

This past Wednesday was our screening of “Revolution OS.” To be honest, I was a little worried. I wasn’t getting a whole lot of feedback, and was concerned that I’d be a lonely geek watching a movie (that I already own) in a rented theatre by myself. Turns out my worries were unfounded. Our user’s group, and the local community came out in droves! We had about 4 dozen people in the Darress theatre, with only one walk out. Considering the depth of the movie, I’d say that was a great success. Many people stuck around to ask questions, which I did my best to answer. We then went over to the Boonton Avenue Grille for good food and more good conversation. Overall, it was a great night, a great opportunity to share information about GNU, Linux, Free and Open Source Software.

I have many people to thank,

J.T.S. Moore, who allowed us to show his documentary without charge
All the local businesses that allowed me to put up flyers advertising the event
The Neighbor News, who ran our announcement in the local paper
Jay Sulzberger, for running our announcement on the NYLX mailing list
Threethirty and the Fedora team, and the Ubuntu Shipit team who combined sent out three dozen nicely printed distributions to give out to interested movie watchers
Tom and the crew at the Darress Theatre, for the great venue
The user’s group members that supported my crazy idea
And above all, all of the folks who participated, donated and spent some time learning about Free and Open Source Software like Linux. (If I’ve forgotten anyone, and I almost certainly have, just let me know, I’ll update!)

We raised enough to cover the cost of the theatre, with $101 left over, which will go to the Free Software Foundation, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Stay tuned to the blog, some of the members took pictures, and we’ll update for upcoming events and meetings.

Also, I’ll be running an “Introduction to Free software and Linux” at the Boonton library at 6:30 on April 20th, for anyone who is local and interested. I’ll be showing some current software, and some explanation of what it does, and how you can use it. Details will be posted here soon.

Again, thanks to all of you, and please let me know what was good, what was bad, and if you’d be interested in more events like this, or if you’d be interested in joining us at the North Jersey Linux User’s Group at njlinux.org. I can be reached at linux @ murph.info.

A promotion opportunity.

murph — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:29:36 +0000

If anyone is going to be the Meadowlands area (I cannot, if was able to make it, I wouldn’t post.) this coming weekend, maybe you can drop off a bunch of flyers. If you’re interested in going, I have a dollar off coupon that I can email to you. Let me know.

Thanks,

–Bob