Re: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
Re: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
- From: Dennis Wurster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -0400
We take notes during our monthly Q & A session on laptops using
SubEthaEdit, making sure to write down the question as it was asked
and as much complete information about solving or troubleshooting the
problem. A group of 4 of us can take the notes and edit them on-the-
fly surprisingly effectively.
Generally we just post the notes to our forums, but I suppose
something like that would be a high-value, low-disk-space addition to
a DotM.
-=Dennis=-
On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote:
Now that the User Group edition of Breen;s Bungalow has once again
been made available to User Groups, I thought it appropriate to ask
what sort of content do groups put on their Discs of the Month.
Breen's Bungalow seems to be approx 100MB each month, so that
leaves at least 600MB left to be filled... but with what?
I suspect some groups have a PDF newsletter they place on the CD.
There is always popular shareware apps like GraphicConverter that
can be included when updated
"Large" updates to popular applications like the recent Microsoft
Office Updates could also be included.
But what else can be included that will interest members to buy
each month?
Another idea is to have, when appropriate, the software been
discussed at your meeting made available on CD.
I recently gave a presentation about "Essential, Useful &
Interesting Free Software for Mac OS X" to the Bellarine Macintosh
User Group and their committee took the initiative to download the
500MB+ worth of 30 installers that I was going to discuss and
compiled a CD of them all to save their members downloading and
also earn the club some extra money... and this was quite
successful for them.
They were in the fortunate position they new what I was going to
talk about as I had also given that presentation to the Central
Victorian Macintosh Users a few weeks before, so the slides and
links were already available on my site, and they informed me that
they were doing this, so I gladly incorporated a slide into the
presentation promoting the CD for them.
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060622-freesoftware/>
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060712-freesoftware/>
If the topic under discussion at your group is a commercial
application like Microsoft Office or any of the Adobe/Macromedia
applications, then there are often trial, or demo, versions
available for downloading... and these can often be large (I think
the Office Demo is 400MB) and if the license agreement allowed it,
these could be candidates for inclusion on a DotM.
AUSOM, Australia's Leading Apple Macintosh User Group, also
compiles a CD of PDFs of all the back issues of their printed
magazine, AUSOM News. This archive includes every issue of AUSOM
News since February 2000 (they don't produce a magazine in Januarys)
Any other thoughts for content for Discs of the Month to be sold to
members?
--
Nicholas Pyers, Macintosh User Group Resources
email: email@hidden
web: http://www.nicholaspyers.com/usergroups
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