On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:59, Michelle Sims wrote: > We would like to discuss with you the opportunity to market to the New > Zealand Linux users to educate them about the offerings that ACCPAC > perhaps by way of sponsoring the User Group?. > > Can you please advise if you are able to assist us or if you can > provide the best way for us to do this.
This is interesting. I guess that by our current membership rules Michael just joined the group, so his input to how we feel about group sponsorship is as valid as ours. sigh. It strikes me that we might get more offers of things like this as time goes on as well. Perhaps we should have more structure to the group? A committee perhaps? Anyway, some things they could do are: 1. sponsor a meeting. Means we could get free beer or something ;) --- they could give a talk/demo. I'd be quite interested to hear them talk about an industry's perspective on Linux and why they've chosen to release a Linux product, and problems they had in porting a product. (we get free beer, they get free speech:) 2. Dunno. any other ideas? If they give us money then we have to figure out what to do with the money. We'd need more ideas than just "have an installfest" :) A committee could help make decisions like this --- or at least then we'd have 3 or 4 people who felt like they had to come up with ideas :) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change." -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
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