What was rolling on the San Lorenzo River on Tuesday was videotape — Christian Einfeldt shot a few miles of video of Ken and me and Felton, taking up a better part of the day until the evening event. I no longer envy those who make their living on either side of the camera — it’s a lot of hard work.
Despite the numbers not being high on Tuesday night, the momentum continues and can be gauged in ways that may not be thought of as conventional. For example, one of the most astounding phenomena I’ve ever encountered is that people are coming in with their hardware — and this happened on Tuesday as well — and essentially saying “I’ve had enough of Windows — give me Linux.” These folks don’t want to try it out first; they’re so angry at Microsoft that they’re looking for alternatives.
One fellow wanted to buy a Zareason box — Zareason was on hand on Sunday, but they were not around on Tuesday. Christian was able to call Zareason and hand the man his phone, and hopefully he went home with a Zareason computer.
Today, Ken and I had a chance to finally sit down and talk about what worked on these first two days and what didn’t. Meanwhile, interest has been raised on the project in a way that people are starting to say, “Hey, I can do this in my community,” and suburban Portland, Ore., may be next on this continent to take up the Lindependence project.
Stay tuned. There’s another meeting scheduled for a week from Saturday — that would be July 26, and it coincides with a big celebration of the town buying back its waterworks from a multinational corporation (the dinner and dance is in the evening; the meeting/installfest is in the afternoon).
