[tslug] Inspiration: Fwd: [MLUG] Free Linux stuff coming for next meeting!
Free swag == good. Even without all the IPOs, these companies have large marketing budgets, maybe they'll send us some stuff (though my favorite open source projects don't have any marketing budget, oh well). And I think the CSO (where Kronos lives) needs a poster or two. I'm thinking of doing some emailing this weekend. From the Mizzou Linux User Group: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [MLUG] Free Linux stuff coming for next meeting! Date: Friday 10 October 2003 10:08 From: Davis, Ryan W. (UMC-STUDENT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everyone, Just to let you know, I have emailed IBM, SUSE, Redhat, Sun, etc. asking for some materials to distribute at our next meeting. Redhat is already replyed and is shipping us a Care Package for our members. Just to let you know, you might want to attend the next meeting. Adam and I will try to come up with a fair way to do so (maybe like a door prizes thing were everyone gets a number). I am in the process of emailing Mandrake, Linux Journal, Linux Today, Linux Gazette, Oracle, MySQL, Dell, HP, Gateway??. Well, let me know what you think... P.S. If you can think of any other companies I can nag for free stuff, let me know. (OSDN, BSD?) Ryan Davis Network Programmer Analyst - Student IAT Services - DNPS University of Missouri-Columbia (573)882-2759 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Free Linux stuff
A couple of notes from having been doing this for several years now... Adam and I will try to come up with a fair way to do so (maybe like a door prizes thing were everyone gets a number). A. Have a *numbered* attendance sign-up sheet. This does two things: 1. Tells you who and how many people attended. Add a column for email address for more fun. Add a Y/N column for first time for more fun. Add a Y/N column for mailing list sign-up for more fun. 2. Gives you a numbered list of attendees. B. Obtain a suitably random number among those on the signup sheet. C. That person wins the prize, and gets to pick the *NEXT* random number. D. Repeat. Give away prizes in *LEAST* valuable to *MOST* valuable order. E. Make your own free stuff - CDs of any distro you like. 1. Take requests. 2. Use CD-RW media and ask to recycle. 3. Using CD-RW media is useful for distro beta releases. P.S. If you can think of any other companies I can nag for free stuff, let me know. (OSDN, BSD?) Contact Kara Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Kara is in charge of the LPI's User Group Development initiative, has been running LUCI and SILUG with her husband Steven Pritchard for years, and knows *LOTS* of VIPs in these Linux and Open Source companies. They also host http://www.archlug.org/ for us down in Tha Lou, and generously provide numerous awesome mirrors (ftp://ftp.silug.org/) on a half-*terabyte* (500GB) of storage and a T1 to get it to you. You may also recognize her name on the older Red Hat Exam Cram book from the company formerly known as Coriolis. You may also see her name on the soon-to-be-released 2nd Edition of the LPI in a Nutshell book from the company still known as O'Reilly. Mike/ - http://www.valuenet.net - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Redcode/CoreWars
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:30:34PM -0500, Alexander Horn wrote: Yesterday, Ian and I did some research on the CoreWars tournament we are planing to have between the three other CS organizations. Checking out the only recent documentations on Redcode?s current standard we could find (the ?assembly? language used to program the warrior) http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/corewar/guide.html there is the question whether we don?t want to look for something more suited for a higher level programming language. Give some input on this subject. Thanks. I think the point is specifically that we don't want a high level language. No one wants to claim ultimate superiority in Lisp wars or Modula 2 wars; or given our recent thread Cobol wars. The whole point of core wars is the crudeness, that sense of getting down to the nitty gritty. If you can be clever in that context, you can count yourself clever. Don -- Don Bindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
