ITEC

[Jim Herrmann]

Hal,
I would like to help out by taking a shift at the booth, and perhaps be 
involved in setup.  My son is somewhat interested in helping out as well.  He 
is 11 and has run Red Hat 7.1 and now is running Mandrake 8.1.  I mentioned 
to him that it might be cool if he donated his computer to be used at the 
convention so that we could tell everyone that Linux is so easy to use that 
this machine here was installed and used by an 11 year old.  :-)

We do need to discuss what it is we are going to be doing at the booth.  I 
suggest that we have three or four reasonably powerful machines running 
different distros, but all running Open Office or Star Office 6.0 beta.  
Network these machines together so that games can be played across the 
network.  The two big arguments I hear about not switching to Linux are lack 
of applications, meaning MS-Office, and lack of games, meaning the crap that 
is boxed and sold on the store shelves.  We need to show anyone that drops by 
the booth that both of these perceptions are fallacies.  We need to show 
people the latest, greatest, prettiest, and flashiest software, because 
that's what all the other vendors are doing.  As much as many of you on the 
list love the command line, it doesn't impress too many people outside of the 
Unix world, and they already know what Linux is all about.  I think the 
target audience should be Windoze users who might be on the fence about using 
Linux.

We discussed burning CDs of distros to give away, but I feel that this would 
be cost prohibitive given the limited financial resources of this 
organization.  How about having a handout with a list of links to get more 
information about Linux?  That would be something of which we could generate 
hundreds to give people that would be a reminder of what they saw at the show.

Let's discuss.

Peace,
Jim

On Tuesday 23 October 2001 10:52 am, Duston, Hal wrote:
> All,
>
> I received our tickets for ITEC Monday evening.  Anybody who wants some,
> please email your street address, and how many you want to
> hald-itec at sound.net, by Friday, November 2, and I will get them in the mail
> to you.  Also, I need the names of volunteers to work our booth so I can
> register you as exhibitors
>
> Thanks,
> Hal Duston
> Application Developer
> 913-906-4490
>
>
>