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Italian Linux Day 2005: A smashing success (NewsForge)

[Posted November 28, 2005 by cook]

Marco Fioretti covers the 2005 Italian Linux Day event. "If you're ever put in charge of organizing a Linux Day, you might also want to copy the following trick: Don't burn and give away just CDs of GNU/Linux distributions or GPL software for Windows. Make available on CD all the free documentation and copyleft music you can find. The volunteers at the CD stand told me that such collections went even faster than the software discs."

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Posted Nov 29, 2005 0:19 UTC (Tue) by barbara (subscriber, #3014) [Link]

A wonderful story. 97 events in 94 cities - major coolness!