On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:44:49 +1300 Tim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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:) last time beer was suggested (Xmas last year) some wowsers put a stop to it. > > > 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. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
