ITEC

[Brian Kelsay]

I just sent requests to Red Hat, Mandrake, and O'Reilly.  I will look
for others today.

----- Original Message -----
From: "JD Runyan" <Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov>
To: "'Kclug'" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: ITEC

> 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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