"The event, sponsored by the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce,
serves all levels of e-business professionals, facilitating a wide range
of branding and networking opportunities. The day-long event in the
Air National Guard Hanger will feature 16 educational seminars and more
than 120 high-tech company exhibitions.
[...snip...]
For more information, contact Caroline Marshall or Jennifer Quinlan,
436-3988, or visit www.ecoast.com." (sic, that should be www.ecoast.org)
There is an entry in the calendar on ecoast for Oct 11 that has more info, along with a busted link to a TechWorld page.
I'm wondering if the best way for gnhlug to participate could be to organize participation by Linux companies, getting them to exhibit as professionally as the rest of the computer marketplace would do more to get Linux accepted as a mainstream factor than anything else we could do. I feel it would be tremendously counter-productive to try to put together some homebrew displays or talks that reinforce the image of Linux as a roll-your-own counterculture for the modern equivalent of the phone phreaks. Just MHO...
--Bruce McCulley
