Wow, my first post on this list in over a year, and I already started a fight...
Perhaps we can put it together. Kin can speak about FOSS, and tie into it with some of the benefits. Then he can point at the "Exchange replacement demo" at the booth (I'll man it) as an example of how FOSS doen't mean a loss of quality or functionality. Heck, I can provide some tshirts for prizes even. And on another day, I can do a CLUG presentation. Sound like a good compromise? Kev. -----Original Message----- From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:14 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] CUUG Open House 23 Jan 07 Kin C Wong wrote: > Granted, I am interested in the topic as well. We only have 20 > minutes, can we do the topic justice or would a generic presentation > with promotion of the Scalix solution be a better investment of time > and energy. My general conversation on FOSS will only last about 3 > minutes Will you do your presentation 6-7 times? Not sure why the fact that your presentation is 3 minutes long in a 20-minute window is a plus. > -- the best use of the time on stage would be to point to the booth Disagree. Who will the booth be manned by? Will there be people there who can follow up on your presentation with information about what you talked about? Given the traffic on the list so far about this I believe the booth/table will be manned by those who have time to "stop by". They may or may not have any interest or knowledge in what you speak about. > The meat of the presentation is more to highlight globalization, > today's situation and why the Linux and FOSS movement is important. I think this is where we diverge. In a "linuxest" or other FOSS-friendly environment I can see this as a good topic. In the basement of Castell I see a generic FOSS presentation of three-minutes in length to be good, but not as good as a "replace your friggin-bajillion-bucks-45-minutes-to-reboot Exchange server with this product" presentation. > The main difference > between us is that I have dealt the senior management and you are more > comfortable with the actual technical solutions. You make judgments about me that you cannot support. Shame on you, Kin. > If the group believes that Scalix would be a better presentation for > the Open House, then please make it known quickly so that I can make > other plans and Kevin to start preparing for the meeting. Agreed. I am defending a topic that I have no ability or interest in presenting. I therefore defer to the whim of the LUG. > BTW, I didn't realize that you don't like cats. Well...from a distance, I guess L :) And on another note - will someone be there who I can finally make good on my promise to become paying member with? J -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.770.2837 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
