On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Rick Petree wrote:
> I think that someone that took better notes than I needs to put out a list
> of "To do" action items and ask for volunteers to complete these items by
> a certain deadline.
PRE-SHOW STUFF
We need to put together an online registration form/interest survey and get
it online. I'll work on that and will have a draft ready by Monday night.
We need to get in touch with advertising sources. Local papers. Websites.
We need to contact area business associations and groups to let them know
about this. Spread the word.
We should look into posting information about this in local computer stores,
bulletin boards (the physical kind), etc.
SHOW SUPPORT
We need to find out about food at the show.
We need to determine what our needs our (of course, we need to determine
what we'll be doing before we can determine what we need to do it):
- Computers
- Projectors
- Displays
We need to find out what kind of facilities will be available, in terms of:
- Space
- Power
- Networking
- Computers
With that information, we can determine what we'll need to supply ourselves.
About those computers at NHTC:
- We need to find out we are allowed to do to them.
- We should verify they have backups, in case we destroy something.
- We need to determine their hardware, to make sure it works on Linux.
- We need to visit well in advance to install, configure, and test our
software to ensure it works.
- We need to save those configurations in case we need to restore them
in the mean time.
We need to find out where things are going to be at, plan it all, so we can
setup quickly on The Day.
PRESENTATIONS
We need to find out if we can get one or more "keynote" speakers who have
implemented Linux successfully in this business. Suggestions were someone
from Burlington Coat Factory and someone from Virtual Airways.
We need to find success stories about Linux in business that we can talk
about during our own presentations.
We need to put together our own presentation. What do we talk about? What
do we show? How? We need to gather information, lists of software,
screenshots, and the like.
We need to find people to put on our presentation itself. They need to
practice it.
DEMONSTRATIONS
We need to find people to man demos and supervise the try-it-yourself
sections.
We need to work out what those demos are going to be. :)
We need to find out about end-user business application software, such as
Corel Office, StarOffice, Applixware, and anything else that works. We need
to have copies of it to install on our demo machines.
Especially good would be any software which implements functionality similar
to Microsoft Access. That is, an easy-to-use, GUI database front-end.
We need to contact LinuxCare and find out about local Linux support options.
If possible, we should look into other local support options as well. Not
because I don't like LinuxCare, but because it's the right thing to do.
We need to contact Red Hat, SuSE, etc., for promotional materials.
Brochures, displays, etc. Copies of their free distributions to give out
would also be good.
We need to contact ISVs supporting Linux to get promotional materials.
Oracle, IBM, Informix, etc. Any company will have tons of sales junk they
just love to give away. Free sample CDs are even cooler.
We need to find out about local VARs and ISPs that are Linux-friendly, and
contact them for donations and about booths at the show.
*phew* That's about it. Not unmanageable, but we do have our work cut out
for us.
*yawn* That's my contribution for tonight. There's some sporting event
tomorrow or something, ;-), so I won't have anything much more to add until
Monday.
Cheers!
--
Ben Scott
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