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: John Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:35:41 -0500
One quite useful and popular item is fonts. Our group created an entire disk
with nothing but fonts, contacting foundries all over the world requesting
each to donate any or as many fonts as they could or desired. It was a great
promo for the foundries, and a great resource for our members. Licenses
ranged the gamut, from prohibiting commercial use (allowing for only
personal or non-commercial purposes) to standard, open usage.
But it took months to work out all the details.
There are, however, plenty of free fonts on the web, and including some of
those is a great idea, especially if you include a PDF or similar to
actually show members what the fonts look like without them having to
install or look individually at each with some utility.
John
The Rest of Us, Chicago
> 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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