linuxword update

[David Bristel]

Well, your point of having Word Perfect or Star Office is a good one, but we
should also show the differences since we want to show some of what makes
Debian, Debian.  There's a lot of people out there that don't know the
difference between Redhat, Slackware, Debian, or S.u.S.E.  I'd like to see us
possibly set up times when we can display different aspects of Debian.  I've
also not been to one of these, though I went to Comdex and was seriously
disappointed by how few people were showing WHY people would want to go with
Linux instead of NT for running a server.  Or to seriously have a presentation
on various issues which would attract the notice of people who wanted to learn
about the OS.  Not everyone wants to sit down for a private discussion, they
want to be a part of the audience and just listen in.  Just some ideas.

							Dave


On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 gecko@benham.net wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:11:39 -0800
> From: gecko@benham.net
> To: David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>
> Cc: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>, bad@kitenet.net,
>     Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>,
>     Sylvester Baker Smith II <sly@csua.berkeley.edu>,
>     David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org>,
>     epsasnova <epsas@sky.bluelight.net>,
>     Donovan Freemyer <dlfg@tsoft.com>,
>     Nils Lohner <lohner@typhoon.icd.teradyne.com>, alan@webwidgets.net,
>     "G. Crimp" <ye416@vifa1.freenet.victoria.bc.ca>,
>     Kevin Smathers <kevin@ank.com>, Klaus Kettner <kk@sesom.de>,
>     Blackwolf <blackwlf@blackwolf.com>, Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>,
>     Michael Schmitz <MSchmitz@lbl.gov>, Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>,
>     Nathan Myers <ncm@best.com>, Seth <schoen@uclink4.berkeley.edu>,
>     Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>,
>     Rafael Kitover <rkitover@dillinger.io.com>
> Subject: Re: linuxword update
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 06:29:23PM -0800, David Bristel wrote:
> > Ok, now that the time is close, I'm wondering what sort of a display we want to
> > have there.  I'd personally like to see a solid demonstration of what makes
> > Debian better than the other distributions.  YOU know, and _I_ know, but to
> > those who have never seen Debian, they may want to see for themselves.
> > Depending on stations, perhaps showing off the installation process, and package
> > management would be good.  I've not tried the fresh setup of 2.1 yet, but it's
> > something that might attract some attention(hopefully good).  Any thoughts?
> > 
> > 						Dave Bristel
> 
> Consider our target audience... I've never been to one of these but from
> what I understand, we're going to be facing businesses (and businessmen). 
> How interested are they going to be in the install routine compared to
> what they can *do* with Debian... and Debian's support network... and I'm
> sure there are more.
> 
> In the case of *do*, I think a computer running as a high power 'net server
> (or the closest we can to fake it), a computer demoing a work station (maybe
> running siag office and/or wordperfect (I know, non-free, but there are no
> free word processing packages).   (Err... do we have a laser printer
> available?).
> 
> In the case of *support*.  Maybe a computer with list email set up.. maybe
> some history.  Maybe some one can find some good samples of tough questions
> that were answered timely.  A computer with IRC showing umm... er... well...
> not #debian but maybe #debianhelp staffed with a few people (not attending)
> that can act professional and pretend like we've got people there to answer
> questions.
> 
> That's an idea of what I'm thinking...
> 
> - Darren
>