Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[benali72]

The more people who use Puppy, the larger and more vibrant our community will be. The better for all of us. (and the better for all those who will benefit from their use of Puppy).

What can each of us do to promote Puppy?

Here are a few ideas... add your own to this thread. Then go out and DO it!

* Post on forums and mention Puppy
* Tell your co-workers at work about Puppy
* Tell your friends and IT peers about it
* Give a demo on Puppy at a local Linux users group
* Present on Puppy at school or at work
* Write an article on Puppy
* Put up a web site on Puppy
* Add a mention or testimony about your use of Puppy to your existing web site
(it doesn't matter what your web site covers)
* Post comments to online articles that mention Puppy as a solution or its benefits
* Install Puppy on machines for your family, friends, and relatives
* Install Puppy on machines that are then recycled for charity
* Help build the value of the Puppy community by participating in Puppy's forums

What do you do to promote Puppy?

What else can we do to promote Puppy?

[linuxcbon]

Help finding bugs

Compile programs or better : make pets available for all.

Show it to friends and make them jealous.

Write about it in your blog.

Give feedback to developpers so they can improve puppy.

Use it.

[darrelljon]

Design a DVD Keep Case.
Answer unanswered posts in the forum.
Design artwork.
Make promotional videos and presentations.
Do a podcast about it.
Make a case badge or 2 here,

[Lobster]

What a great gift Christmas card Puppy would make.

[Aronzak]

I had an idea here http://aronzak.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/usb-linux-challenge/

1 Buy a few cheap usb flash drives
2 Put Linux on them
3 Give them out
4. If someone likes what they see, they can have a copy. If not, no harm done.
If you get the drive back, repeat from step 3.

What do you think?

[Aitch]

See my link

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262894#262894

FOSDEM Open Source Developers European Meeting

Feb 09 in Brussels

Good opportunity for PUPPYPOWER Publicity!!

FOSDEM website down but wikipedia has this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSDEM

Aitch

[Lobster]

Using Impress in the OO3 SFS
I have created these Puppy centric presentations:

ODP format
http://www.tmxxine.com/odp/puppy41_new.odp

PDF using export
http://www.tmxxine.com/odp/puppy41_new.pdf

Still working on them - so not quite perfect
but the Impress program is fast and stable

You can of course modify and use the presentation in any way you wish

[benali72]

Hi Lobster,

Excellent job on the slides -- brief, to the point, comprehensive. Nice work.

I occasionally give presentations (on operating systems, databases, and scripting languages). By chance I'm giving two next week (one at a community college, one at a major university.

From your post, I assume it's ok if I copy or adapt a couple of your slides for some future presentation? This would provide some nice Puppy material... very well summarized. I'll credit them "Lobster (Official Crustacean)" or with your name if you send it to me.

Thank you.

[Lobster]

[01micko]

Here's what I'm gonna do.
I wrote a script that runs a slideshow in Puppy (with thanks to zigbert and MU, must mention CatDude and trio). It also runs in Mandriva (with the necessary tweaks, but no outrageous dependencies, sheesh!). I'll refine the script, add "designed for Puppy Linux" in the comments and 'readme', tarball it, maybe even rpm it (if I can) and release it to the Mandriva community. Then wait and see. If just 1 Mandriva user sees that it is just so bloated and still needs dependencies to install the simplest of apps, then it is worth it!

[Aitch]

01micko

Don't forget to post it here, so we may see your efforts



PS Lobster - 'new iBone'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughtonb/459585522/

Aitch

[01micko]

[noprimenumbers]

I fixed a laptop for my neighbor but didn't have a hard drive caddy or connector for it so the W$ XP is just sitting in the hard drive. I gave him a copy of Puppy and told him about it. His remark was what good will it do me I don't have any where to store anything that I work on. I kinda LOL but explained that the disk is a CD-R and Puppy took less than 100 MB of space. It took a few seconds but the light came on and he got a little excited. I can't wait to here what he has to say.

One of my customers is starting a Internet Cafe and I told him about Puppy. I will give him a PC that I got from him with puppy on it as soon as I can get it to working. Recycle the PC back to the PC shop you get it at. That might be a new one.

Dogle is an inspiration. Thanks for the link.

Thanks Puppyteers (?? need a name ??)
Scott

[ecomoney]

Hi noprimenumbers

Let me know how the cybercafe, ive had considerable experience in running one, and have released a "puplet" designed especially for them. Would be happy to supply expertise on a commercial or non-commercial basis.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12714

A cybercafe is a supurb way of promoting puppy, not just because it makes an ideal system for a cybercafe (security/ease of use/speed), but it generates a lot of additional business. Most people that use a cybercafe either havnt got a computer, or have a broken one. Ask around local schools/businesses to see it you can take their old computer "waste problem" off their hands for free, install them up with puppy and offer them for sale from the cybercafe itself. They will sell like hot cakes once the customers have seen linux in action.

[noprimenumbers]

Hi Ecomoney

I was looking forward to your introducing yourself. After all Dogle already introduced you to me. I read a lot about your project and would like to ask a few questions of you. In time you may need your own section in the forum.

Can you start your own Q&A thread? I think many could benefit from it. I am still exploring the forum so you may have one and I not found it. Or should I use the long one of your project?

Thanks for starting such a great thing.
Scott