This comes to us from fellow BeOS user Mark Round. He is trying to make BeOS more aware to people in the UK, so we're trying to give his effort a little push.

He's part of a local LUG (Linux User Group) and according to him, many members are interested in BeOS, but have "never given it a try - or they just dismissed it as it's dead". He plans to change that.

To counter that and to bring BeOS more users, he proposes the following:

"With this in mind, I'm planning on doing a "BeOS" day at my local LUG. Every month, we have a meeting in a pub, and we also have a "practical" session or training days where we can each do a presentation/tutorial for our fellow members. Sometime soon I'd like to do a BeOS demo with several other BeOS fans in our group - we could demo the OS, talk about Be history, OpenBeOS / B.E.O.S etc., Yellowtab, the BFS, and loads more. I really think it'll appeal to a lot of the crowd."

Not a bad idea. And it's just that he would like for everyone else to do. If you're part of a LUG, WUG (yeah right) or any other kind of OS User Group why not try it? Even if it's just a 1/2 hour demo followed by a Q&A session, that would spread the word. The title of this news piece says UK but why stop there? Wherever you are, do that, make yourself heard. And as Mark points out "It might also be an idea to bring along copies of PE, or preferably Developers Edition (more suited for developers/hackers) to give away."