>
> I think the intervening period until then is good for more planning, demonstration
>planning and setup, and other things. Larry said he was working on a demoday mailing
>list so we can focus more on planning without filling up peoples' mailboxes who don't
>want to be so involved. ;) I know I've got some systems I want to finish setting up
>to bring. This may take some time yet.
>
> This saturday perhaps those of us that show up at the seminar at commsource can
>discuss breifly some demoday issues and progress. Things such as advertising,
>infrastructure, coordinators/coordination, mailing list, fliers, demos(computers),
>demos(speakers), topics, focus and/or target audience for the demoday [ideally this
>is decided prior to advertising]
>
> ie A demoday theme such as:
> installfest oriented,
> 'linux is better than butter and can be used on more things',
> power of unix in general,
> integrate linux into your corporate network [either with or without superiors'
>knowledge; read: samba, firewall, nids, email filter, dns, dhcp, and the sysadmin's
>computer..],
> or the Awe technique ['What can you do with linux?' Everything, because we are
>doing it with every system here: games, ${all things listed above}, desktop-user
>stuff, penetration testing, scientific applications...] (If you haven't guessed
>already, I vote for something like this. What better way to open someone's eyes than
>all the way? And what better way to get the whole Lug involved? I may know
>somethings about networking, someone else knows some things about gaming, others know
>about scientific applications. Coming together to polish off linux and make it
>shine! How many people view linux as something symbolized as 'C:\>'? , or even worse
>'#' ? (remember the first time you saw these two prompts, and tried to command them,
>or even understand them) I think it's important to show people a finished product,
>[ie a fully configured gaming system] for something inspiring to work towards.
>Otherwise they may become discouraged: 'that free operating system is free for a!
r!
> eason...' No, it's not free because it doesn't work. It does work, and here's the
>pudding of our proof!)
>
> ...Just to name a few topics of discussion off the top of my head. ;)
>
Another selling point of linux is that is IS scalable, so I think
a variety of systems, with a variety of setups would be good.
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