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[Gufran <dogabhai@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Xylon,
Why not just *'Try It Out'* ?
I was not serious at first either but people out there are awesome.
And most of all, getting back emails and all sort of good words is an
awesome feeling :)


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:19 AM, A. "Xylon" V. <avlabs314@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is absolutely awesome. I would do exactly the same thing if I was
> actually old enough to be taken seriously or if I knew anyone in my
> community XD
>
> On Aug 21, 2013 8:41 PM, "David Gomes" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > You should totally record or take pictures of people and make a blog
> post somewhere about this (perhaps elementaryupdate), it's great PR for us
> and it was an awesome idea!
> >
> > Thank you and good job!
> >
> > ~David "Munchor" Gomes
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Gufran <dogabhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello guys and Girls,
> >>
> >> First of all I'd mention that here in my
> society/locality/streets/region/state linux is not quite popular (Hell,
> some people doesn't even know what a linux is!), so I went out and told
> them an evening :)
> >>
> >> Two days ago I burnt 10 CD of luna and wrapped them in an envelop with
> two papers in it, First one was having instructions on how to boot with
> this CD and try out the live session without messing up with your computer,
> Full Installation instructions if you like the deal and my email address
> just in case someone need any help.
> >> And the second paper, well, that was about why windows sucks and why
> you should immediately ditch it (No, I'm not sorry).
> >>
> >> Then I went out and start looking for people who potentially owns a
> computer, well, you can easily find out by their backpack, job ID cards,
> gadgets and things like that, and it really doesn't hurt either if you ask
> politely. anyways, I managed to convince 10 peoples to at least try this
> 'thing' and handed them the CDs I had.
> >>
> >> It was fun explaining about Elementary and how awesome it is, so after
> coming back to home I burnt another 25 CDs and the same thing another day.
> >>
> >> and today I distributed another 12 CDs and till now I've got a lot of
> emails from people saying thanks. Some of them asked for a little help as
> well to which I replied promptly.
> >>
> >> All in all, It was an awesome venture and I guess I'm gonna get out
> again tomorrow and find out some more guys for another 8 CDs I have here
> with me.
> >>
> >> And I think you too can do it, anywhere, anytime and with anyone you
> like :D
> >>
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