Thanks Shuttleworth and CO,
]]>Yes Brett came to Potch recently to update our toaster as well! It’s great – we have all the new distros! Thanks Brett – if you ever read this. Charl – please keep in touch – Brett says he is gonna set up a blog…. I am really not an expert – I could do with some guidance!
Hash – we applied and got our toaster from the Shuttleworth Foundation. Though not many use it – I have no idea exactly how many people – but let’s say not more than 100 people used it. This is a small town – so we don’t have too much traffic. Also, people have no clue what Linux/Open source is – even though they might be using it every day.
Still thinking of new ideas and ways of marketing – we started the OpenCafe in 2004 and have held events, trained people, had barcamps – to market the ideas – we find it is better to work with those that already know how open source/open content projects work – most others in town are just not into open source software – which I suppose is normal 🙂
We do work on projects with the local university – where there is FabLab (http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/) – which is running Ubuntu on their computers – during a recent competition – the students had to use OpenOffice Draw to design their components to create a lamp – then they used the FabLab to “print” the lamp out.
We find that marketing through projects is a great way to let people know about the cafe, the toaster etc.
]]>Szavanna, did you build your own? How many people would you say have used it? Also, how much do you guys tout the availability of it (marketing)?
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