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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > A thought has just struck me after my visit to Living Coasts today. Now > a big part of Living Coasts is the Penguins (and they're so adoreable, I > wanted to smuggle one home with me). Now the open day was fairly well > publicised on Facebook and when I left about 11am the place was getting > packed, no doubt it was packed all day (there were over 200 people who > said they were attending). I was thinking, maybe we could do some > special promotion with Living Coasts, if they could distubute copies of > The Open Disc either for free or sell them in the gift shop for say a > quid a disc (with us supplying the discs and just charging to cover the > costs and with the profits going to Living Coasts) then we could also > put some free advertising on the disc for them too (so if it is > distributed in other places people will get to find out about Living > Coasts). > > Not only could this possibly work with Living Coasts, but it may even be > an idea for Newquay Zoo and Paradise Park too (I remember last year when > I went to Paradise Park they said they were trying to raise money to > build a new Penguin enclosure). > > When you think about it, there is all this 'Tux the Penguin' related > software like Tuxpaint, TuxMath, Tux Typing, Super Tux etc which are > both a good advertisement for Free Software (and cross platform too) and > they're also Penguin related so would fit in really well with Living > Coast, Newquay Zoo and Paradise Park. > > Rob > > We seem to be on the same frequency, one thing i noticed was lack of interactive displays, perhaps a few computers could be set up running linux and of course a few tux games, so kids visiting can play, or perhaps as a information terminal, so this can hold html (or similar) files with lots of info / pictures etc about the birds and animals at living costs so visitors can perhaps use to find out more information. as its a charity, it should be able to get funding in a similar way to the exwick centre. they could even sell tux badges with lug branding on saing something like the linux community supports living coasts. what do you think Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmUm9oACgkQaggq1k2FJq2ZtQCcCp9aEjShy6uzOEnKFAFGq9YS 2LIAn2lAdfWHcUUIhtSWsTsnURp9zpvW =3NzQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html