Re: Linux Advocacy at SPCUG regular meetings

From: Mike Machado (mike@linus.cheapnet.net)
Date: Wed Jul 07 1999 - 13:55:39 PDT


You know I'll do it. I can bring my laptop and if someone brings a machine
with a monitor I can plug into that so we all do not have to gaze into a
small screen.

Mike Machado
mike@innercite.com
InnerCite
Network Specialist

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote:

> Mike Machado informed me about the Linux Advocacy day coming up this
> September. It looks like a great idea. Questions that arise: Who is going
> organize it? Where will we hold it? Where are we going to get the equipment?
> Who are we going to target?
>
> It sounds like a great idea, but the more you dig into it, it starts to sound
> like a job selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. So, not to knock the idea (I guess I
> am knocking it paritally, sorry), but I think
> I have a good avenue that we could provide some good advocacy to a crowd that
> is eager to hear what we have to sell.
>
> At each regular SacPCUG meeting there are question and answer tables. LUGS is actually
> a special interest group of sacpcug. I was talking to a few people who go to the
> chair meetings and they seemed to support the idea that we set up a Linux table.
>
> Here is my plan. We get one to two machines with various things configured on them.
> We host a table with one to four people at it. So, here is what I need, a couple volunteers
> with something cool they can show or talk about at the next SPCUG meeting. Preferrably,
> you can bring your machine configured with what you have that is coool to show. Let me
> know if you are interested and I will confirm that we can get a table at the next
> meeting.
>
> Next regular SPCUG meeting is Wednesday, July 21, 1999, 7:00 p.m.
>
> Details about the meetings are at
> http://www.sacpcug.org/
>
> Next regular LUGS meeting is on July 14, 1999, 7pm, so don't mix this up with that.
>
> brian
>
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>



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