On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:17 am, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
Better nail down what you want to do. The ITEC thing is next week. Do we know who is going to be manning the booth? What will be handed out? What needs to be burned, (preferably need to know before the weekend so it can be burned and handed off to someone that will be at ITEC if necessary)? What hardware wil be there? What hardware do we need? Hardware includes PCs, powerstrips, UPS, table, etc.
I won't be there because of other responsibilities but I'm willing to burn a few dozen discs. I think that we, as a LUG, need to decide which disc set that is going to be handed out because our audience might be frightened by being offered three different distro's to choose from; and we burn through our limited CD resources 3 times faster if we give all three to them. Also, I think we would be more effective if we only hand out Live CD's. In this day and age, broadband is dime a dozen; if they are hooked by the Live CD, they will go spend the 10 minutes to download the ISO.
As far as I'm concerned, the best option for a new user is an Ubuntu Linux Live CD -- Ubuntu was recently voted best distro in a LinuxWorld magazine poll. I feel that the Kubuntu Live CD variant is more polished than it's Gnome counterpart and representative of the best the Linux desktop has to offer but I'm willing to be argued down on that.
In any event, we need to decide fast. And take a vote or something and do it.