<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font color="#454545" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Jason, OK -- there are probably a lot of ideas people have to form a new type of outreach. I think if people put their heads together, the group could expand their approach and reach a lot more people in the community and accomplish a lot more installations -- and that would be great. I have often told others about the installfests, and they seem so interested, but they do not end up going. We have to make it as convenient and flexible as possible. I think Linux should be growing much faster than it actually is... and that is probably due to not having more types of outreach. Perhaps, a meeting could be arranged for people just to discuss how to develop a new outreach system.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><<<A parallel thought: what about a virtual installfest? New users</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">could sign up for 30 minute slots throughout the day of the</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">installfest and would join a telephone conference with experts</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">standing by. In the weeks before the appointed time the new user</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">would be asked to gather information about the upcoming installation:</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">what kind of hardware, intended use for the system, etc. The</span><br
style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">information could be gathered on a form and distributed to the experts</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">before the installfest. If the new user does not have a preferred</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">distribution the experts could recommend one. If the experts need not</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">attend in person, and need not be available the entire day, perhaps</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">they could be scheduled more frequently than the current schedule.>>></span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> </font></div><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>