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This is an official announcement and call for participation for the Linux Demo Day project (www.linuxdemo.org). The goal of this project is to coordinate a worldwide demonstration of Linux for the thousands of people who have heard of Linux due to the recent media coverage it's gotten, but have _never seen Linux in action_. In addition, the demonstrations will also help spread the word about Linux to the even larger number of users who are not even aware that there is an alternative to using a Microsoft product on their PC. The basic idea behind this project is for LUGs to go into schools, shopping malls, computer stores, or where ever they can/want to get permission, and setup demonstration of Linux. Show off GIMP, GNOME, KDE, Applix, Q3, Civ, Applixware, StarOffice, WordPerfect, and the many other applications that allow you to replace your Windows desktop with a Linux box. In addition, the participants would handout info pamphlets about Linux and possibly give out free CDs and other Linux stuff. Currently this project is just a crazy idea that I have, but hopefully there are enough other Linux nuts out there that we can pull this off. We need all sorts of help. Writers to write/translate pamphlets, a logo for our pamphlets and t-shirts, a few people to help with the web site, etc, etc. Most importantly, we need LUGs to participate in the project by going out and setting up demos. The date for the demo day is somwhere betweeen Sept. 12-19th. The reason is because according to Linus[1], this is when kernel 0.01 was released, so what better way to celebrate the Linux's bday than to expose it to more people? Please join the mailing list if you have any ideas or just want to find out more about the project. To join, mail linuxdemo-request@plexity.net with 'subscribe' in the message body. For more background on my motivation for this project, see http://www.linuxdemo.org/about.shtml I will be at Linux Expo next week and would love to get together with any Linux users who don't think I'm completely insane and want to discuss ideas for the project. The web page, like the project, is just starting up, so please drop me a note if you have problems with it. -- Deepak Saxena [1] http://www.unix-wizards.com/linux-history.html --- deepak@plexity.net -- ICQ: 17774863 Home: (480)446-0903 Work: (480)554-9339 One Day - One World - One Operating System - An Army of Geeks LinuxDemo Day '99 - http://www.linuxdemo.org