[NCLUG] INSTALLFEST: Draft Press Release

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:11:04PM -0600, Matt Clauson wrote:
> Any other outlets I should think of?

Fort Collins Radio (I don't know the station letters)
KCSU
KUNC
KGNU

Northern Colorado Linux Users Group 
Media Release

> For more information, contact:
> 
> Matt Clauson
> Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
> mec at dotorg.org
> (303) 882 8300
> 
> (would like Matt T.'s info here)
> (would like Sean R.'s info here) Use mine instead.

Evelyn Mitchell
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efm at tummy.com
970-494-0355

> Northern Colorado Linux Users Group Announces 3rd Annual Install Fest
> 
> The Northern Colorado Linux Users Group (NCLUG) today announced an open
> invitation to the community at large to attend their third annual
> "Install Fest".  The event is a volunteer-run project in collaboration
> with other area Linux user groups, including the LUGofCSU, based at
> Colorado State University.  The goal of the project is to demonstrate
> other viable alternatives to Microsoft Windows as an operating system for
> the personal computer (PC), and to showcase the Linux operating system. 
> The event will be held in the North Ballroom of Lory Student Center, on
> the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, CO, on Sunday,
> October 22nd, from 1-8PM.  Setup will begin at 10am.
> 
> Linux is an operating system, a type of computer program that controls the
> application programs that run on a computer, in much the way Microsoft
> Windows controls spreadsheets or word-processing applications that run on
> a PC. 

This sentence is too long. How about:
Linux is an operating system, newer than Microsoft Windows. It can
run all of the sorts of applications that Windows can.


The rest of it looks great.

Evelyn Mitchell
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