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We had a very successful promotional event at the Pittsburgh Public Market.  Many thanks go out to Jim Harris, John Lewis, Eli Flanagan, Joe Prostko and Nic Shembri for contributing there time and effort for a sucessfull event.
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We had a very successful promotional event at the Pittsburgh Public Market.  Many thanks go out to:
  
We had over 40 visitors to our table.  We gave away 45 dvds.  PPM was a wonderful venue for our event.  I believe we reached out to people who were not familiar with FOSS and were able to get some visitors to if not convert, to at least give Ubuntu or Fedora a try.
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Jim Harris
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John Lewis (burned OpenDisc,OpenDistro and OpenCultrue dvds)
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Eli Flanagan (Spotlight on Foss dvds for Mac)
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Joe Prostko brought some Haiku cds
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Nic Shembri (burned OpenDisc dvds)
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for contributing there time and effort that helped make this a successful event for Wplug!
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We had over 40 visitors to our table.  We gave away 45 dvds.  PPM was a wonderful venue for this event.  I believe we reached out to people who were not familiar with FOSS and were able to get some visitors to if not convert, to at least give Ubuntu or Fedora a try. Jim Harris and Eli Flanagan did a bang up job of explaining Foss to neophytes
  
 
[[Image:IMG_20110917_101517SFD.jpg | 144px | Me Myself, Tux and Swag! ]]
 
[[Image:IMG_20110917_101517SFD.jpg | 144px | Me Myself, Tux and Swag! ]]
  
[[Image:IMG_20110917_131408.jpg | 144px | Joe Prostko and myself viewing my laptop's screen]]
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[[Image:IMG_20110917_131408.jpg | 144px | Joe Prostko and myself viewing my laptop's screen. ]]
  
[[Image:IMG_20110917_125622.jpg | 144px | I Show a potential convert some geek jujitsu]]
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[[Image:IMG_20110917_125622.jpg | 144px | I Show a potential convert some geek jujitsu. ]]
  
[[Image:IMG_20110917_cropped-800px.png | 144px | John Lewis, Eli Flanagan and Yours truly watch the throng of humanity pass by our booth]]
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[[Image:IMG_20110917_cropped-800px.png | 144px | John Lewis, Eli Flanagan and Yours truly watch the throng of humanity pass by our booth. ]]

Revision as of 20:54, 19 September 2011

We had a very successful promotional event at the Pittsburgh Public Market. Many thanks go out to:

Jim Harris John Lewis (burned OpenDisc,OpenDistro and OpenCultrue dvds) Eli Flanagan (Spotlight on Foss dvds for Mac) Joe Prostko brought some Haiku cds Nic Shembri (burned OpenDisc dvds)

for contributing there time and effort that helped make this a successful event for Wplug!

We had over 40 visitors to our table. We gave away 45 dvds. PPM was a wonderful venue for this event. I believe we reached out to people who were not familiar with FOSS and were able to get some visitors to if not convert, to at least give Ubuntu or Fedora a try. Jim Harris and Eli Flanagan did a bang up job of explaining Foss to neophytes

Me Myself, Tux and Swag!

Joe Prostko and myself viewing my laptop's screen.

I Show a potential convert some geek jujitsu.

John Lewis, Eli Flanagan and Yours truly watch the throng of humanity pass by our booth.