ITEC

[Rick]

First time e-mail and hopefully soon first time meeting attendee,

It seems that people are afraid of the unknown, how about a demo PC with the
latest version of Linux and Star Office 6.0 installed. Also "frown" Microsoft
Office and a few other windows apps lying on top of wine will make Linux look a
little more friendly.
People can be told that just because they switch to Linux does not mean that they
must drop all their window programs. I have no experience with wine but just read
in "Linux Professional" about the ease of installation and the author was able to
run Word 97 without problems. I know Microsoft is a bad word but we can wean them
away slowly, or let them know if they absolutely must use Microsoft then....

Rick Sobba

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
> >
> >
> >
>