Hi Everyone,
These are the informal minutes of what was discussed at the planning
meeting last night.
The following speakers, sponsors, and vendors are confirmed.
Keynote-Mike Prince, CIO Burlington Coat Factory-Why Linux? Mega Kudos to
Jerry and Josh for accomplishing this.
Speakers-Joshua Freeman, Andover.Net (I need Josh's title) Challenges of
Integrating Linux
Peter Rathbone, President Virtual Airlines (I need a title
for Peter's talk)
Sponsors-IBM, Lotus Corp, VA Linux, Toas, Just this morning, E-Coast (The
Seacoast Technology Roundtable) part of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
signed on. I need the schools correct name New Hampshire Technical
College. They need to be included in the sponsors list.
Vendors-
IBM, VA Linux, Digi, Susi, Corel, Red Hat Caldera Linux Mall, Alpha Linux,
Mandrake, Network Associates, Linux Care.
I don't know in what capacity e-coast wants to be involved. I'm meeting
with the Chair, Joanne, (Portsmouth Computer Group) tomorrow night at the
e-brew. Joanne is also on the board of directors of the Chamber as well.
She has already volunteered to do a broadcast fax to all chamber members
(600 companies) and talked about a banner with the GNHLUG logo and the
E-Coast logo. I'm going to see if I can get them to sponsor the reception
with Redhook. I also don't know what Hitchcock Staffing is going to do for
sponsorship. I'm thinking that rather than have slugs and gnhluggers tied
up with tables of literature I will have folders with a sticker of the
gnhlug logo on the front and inside put all the vendors literature and a
sheet that gives the day's itinerary. This gives us an opportunity to
change the itinerary up to the last minute where printing a brochure would
not. This means we will need less space, only needing to accommodate those
vendors that actually want to have reps there. I know there are companies
that want reps there.
Publicity-Interface Monthly (may also want to sponsor) Channel 9, Seacoast
Newspapers and who ever is on Jerry's list. Jerry will also have to give
you the list of donated items, I don't have that.
Things that still need work (and there are plenty of them) will be worked
on tomorrow night at the NHCTC Lab room 29A @ 7PM. This is where we will
really start to work out the technical logistics. Rick Petree will have
the actual rooms that are available scheduled at that point and non
techies will start to work on a traffic flow. Those of you that want to
help but feel technically challenged are invited to please come and help
with non-tech logistics and you can also be great sounding boards to let
techies know when they have started to get to technical for our business
audience. Techies please come and lend your expertise and let us know what
you feel comfortable doing in terms of demo's, behind the scenes set-up
etc.
See you there,
Lori
