Scott Newman wrote: > Are you hoping for the same turn out as last year? 50 is a pretty > decent turnout for an open house on *nix - > > As for what kind of presentation to give; It all depends on what type > of people will be there. Small business owners looking to get > information on a product line / service they can develop? Medium sized > businesses looking to weigh their options for the infrastructure of > their company as they are growing? Your neighbor Joe Bob? Agreed -- the base presentation is done. As usual I like to bring a slightly different perspective and get people thinking. You are dead right about the audience, but does anyone know anything about the demographics of the attendees? From what I have seen in the last two years, it is mostly *nixphiles. > > It's better to explain how FOSS is viable for one thing or another > than to give a general overview of the issues and challenges of IT in > general if that is what the audience is there to discover. I guess the > same goes for what type of distros to bring along ;-) I had wanted to focus sometime on FOSS, however your comment has just made me realize that my focus is not sufficient -- thanks. With regards to the issues and challenges of IT, I could disagree with that -- it would depend upon the audience that is there, both topics could be of value. > > --Scott > > > > Dave Watkins - CLUG wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > We are still looking for volunteers to help out at CUUG's open > house > > on the > > 23rd of January. > > > > We need the following: > > > > 1. Someone to do a short, 20 minute, presentation on something > Linux. > > 2. Three or four people to help out at our table, hand out > brochures etc. > > 3. Volunteers to burn a few sample CD's, Knoppix, Kubuntu etc. > > > > This is a good chance for us to get out and show the > flag.....last year > > there were around 50 attendees at this event, some that had > never heard of > > CLUG/CUUG at all. > > > > So..... If you'd like to help out give anyone on the Exec a > shout and > > let us > > know what you'd like to do.... > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave Watkins > > President - Calgary Linux Users Group > > > > W: www.clug.ca <http://www.clug.ca> > > E: president_at_clug.ca > > V: 403.701.5746 > > > > > > > > There's nothing wrong with complaining....... > > but it's better to come to the table with a solution. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php > <http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php>) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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