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["A. \"Xylon\" V." <avlabs314@xxxxxxxxx>]

Haha, I'm not sure a 13 year old giving out CD's in to a community of
mostly pensioners will work out :D

Besides, I literally don't know anyone on my street, not even names or what
they even look like.

I do, however, encourage my friend/s to use it
On Aug 21, 2013 9:06 PM, "Gufran" <dogabhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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