These are our ideas for a poster. Please feel free to improve.

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It may well result in people turning up on the list that go away after a week or two, but hopefully some will stay.

Can't criticise Windows too much if we're trying to get them in computer shop windows which sell Windows. Perhaps two versions, with slightly differing text?

“Linux”. Big. At the top. Not “GNU/Linux” as will confuse on first sight.

“Dorset Linux User Group”. Perhaps underneath, smaller, on one line.

Mention live CDs so it can be tried without installing anything.

Our URL: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/.

A coastal outline of the south-west with county boundaries marked and Dorset a different colour to the others?

Adds a bit of colour and interest. Suggest have them in a row in the bottom half of the page. Need to find high quality artwork, vector format preferred, for these that we can use under each of their individual licenses. The images here are just so people know what they look like, they aren't necessarily the ones to use on the finished poster.

• Tux the penguin, perhaps our Farmer Tux from Dorset.
• Ubuntu. The `three person circle'.
• Debian. The `swirl'. They provide an “Open Use Logo” in various formats.
• Fedora. Is it worth including this? It isn't as recognisable as the previous `Red Hat' logo.
• SuSE. Is this the right one these days?
• BSD. Would be nice to have a non-Linux one, and BSD seems the obvious choice. Their little red daemon is most recognisable but the forks have got individual logos now, like the obscure `ball with horns' of FreeBSD.

It would be ideal if the poster was produced using FLOSS, e.g. Inkscape or Scribus.

We should state what license the poster is under so others know what they can do with it.

Add places you can think of, even if they're local, it may be suggestive to others.

• Library.
• School or University notice board.
• Local computer shops.
• Community hall notice boards.