Monday, March 08, 2010

Final push for Ubuntu @ Anime Boston

Thanks to all of you who've made tax-deductible donations so far. We're so close! We still need help to reach and, better yet, push past our fundraising goal. This is the most important time for this project as our deadline is almost upon us. We have a lot we're excited to announce once we finish fundraising, so stay tuned and thank you so much for your generous contributions.

We have a first draft of one side of our tri-fold flyer by Martin Owens and we'd love to hear what you think of it! We want to do the best we can to showcase Ubuntu and promote free culture, software, and content, to people who might not understand the benefits of being able to edit code when they're not coders.

Lastly, we're in need of a couple more volunteers who would like to help us out at the booth. If you're interested, please get in touch.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

That flyer really is not addressing your regular anime fan. Specially if the decide to take the CD home and try it they will be disappointed if they are not patient enough. Maybe you guys should make a simple flyer for your CDs and make some recommendations

For watching anime: Instruct how to install vlc, mplayer, restricted extras, medibuntu, additional gstreamer codecs and if they have an nvidia card that supports VDPAU to get hardware acceleration and beta drivers for their card.

For torrents: maybe a small guide on what torrent app to get ( deluge maybe ) and how to run a torrent box with their 24/7 on computer if they want to be fancy.

Eye candy: anime watchers LOVE eye candy, I would suppose they'd like compiz a lot, maybe a sentence or two on how to get wobbly windows.

Browsers: Definitely knowing that their trusty browsers: FireFox, Chrome and Opera are all available on linux would impact their decisions whether to try Ubuntu or not.

tl;dr I'm concerned that people will pop the CD in, see it doesn't open their anime, pop it out and leave it at that.

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