Linux Demo Day Event

[Mac Wisler]

For those curious, the Linux Demo Day event at Bartle hall was a complete
success.  Despite the rain and cold weather, approx. 40 some people from
KULUA and KCLUG showed up to hand out CD's and promote Linux.  There was
no need to force our stuff on anyone either, there were plenty of people
coming up and asking for it.  The press releases that were issued were
very helpful, many people mentioned they had read about us being there and
that the primary reason they came was for the free Linux cd.  The 800+
CD's that we had were gone by around 7:30, but there were still plenty of
people who just wanted to talk with us about how to get more information
and what was involved to do an install  After the event, most people went
on to Fuddruckers for dinner and t-shirts, stickers, boxed distributions,
and plenty of other fun stuff was passed out to all the hard working 
advocates.

Kudos go out to Jeffrey Watts and Dustin Decker from KULUA for really
putting a lot of work into organizing the event.  Everyone who showed up
or helped in one way or another should also be proud that we definitely
pulled this thing off without a hitch.

I think that this successful outcome proves that there is definitely a
very strong interest in Linux in the KC area and that there are plenty of
people out there hungry for more information, we just need to start
dishing it out.

Mac

p.s.

We were approached by a police officer shortly after we showed up, but he
just wanted to get a Linux cd.