ITEC

[JD Runyan]

go onto Redhats site, and look for promotions, and do the same at
Mandrakes site as well.  They can probably ship some promo distro packs
for the show.  Many of the others may be able to do the same.  They
make thier living off linux being successful which largely depends on
LUGS being successful.  It is in thier best interest to help.

On Tue, Oct ,  at 11:49:50PM -0500, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
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