Installfest ideas

[will]

Jason M Normand wrote:
> Aaron Haviland wrote:
>> Jason M Normand wrote, on Oct 08, 2007 at 09:32 EDT:
>>   
>>> we should have some kind of demonstration of aptitude and the vast 
>>> amount of software available.  i suspect one of the things that turns a 
>>> lot of people off is not seeing any "linux" software when they walk in 
>>> to local stores.  And for people really using linux for the first time 
>>> most likely don't know how competitive the basics really are.  
>>> Demonstrations of open office, thunderbird, gimp, vlc, games, etc.  plus 
>>> a talk about wine would be good.  Let people know there are alternatives 
>>> to ms and adobe and they are easy to install.  I am willing to cover 
>>> some of this some help would not hurt.
>>>     
>> Maybe someone could print up a handy reference card of common apps,
>> useful for the new user. (Maybe such a thing already exists?)
>>
>>   
> ill see if i can pull something together.  there are a million list on 
> digg with some good suggestions.

There's a site that tracks free/open source alternatives to closed 
source applications many of which are on Windows:

    http://www.osalt.com/

I think that'd help putting together a list.

/will