Hi Kale, I'm waiting to hear back from people about their specific projects (I have had a couple responses already) and will let you know by Monday of the specifics.
If I don't get a lot of responses from people who are bringing specific projects, then I'll find some cool examples as well as giving some generic information. Thanks - its much appreciated! - Paul On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Kale Kaposhilin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I'm a new member of your LUG but we have strong ties to Ulster Publishing. > I can probably get a direct recommendation to Dee Giordano to send someone > to cover Arduino-paluzza if you can tell me more about it and what you think > are the primary points of interest for the event. > > Arduino is fascinating for all once they understand what it is and what it > enables people to do. My friend Kate Hartman is writing a book for O'Reilly > on embedded wearable applications for Arduino actually. IMHO, of all the > comp sci platforms to emerge in the last decade Arduino has the most > day-to-day real world obvious applicability in so many fascinating and > whacky-Jetson's- future ways....hence I believe people's general fascination > with it....once they understand what the heck it is. So if you can distill > the idea of Arduino and Arduino-Paluzza a bit for pass off to Dee Giordano I > suspect that it will be of interest to them enough to send a writer to cover > your event. > > I'm in Istanbul at the moment but will return to my Kingston office on > Monday to follow up on this correspondence. > > best regards, > Kale > > ps: We are a small dev shop in Kingston. Around since 2000 or so. > Primarily custom web apps and CMS leveraging open tech methodologies > including RoR. We support and build our own LAMP hosting systems and > virtualization environments. CENTos is our distro of choice. We use our > own CDN accounts with Limelight and Internap to distribute audio and video > well online. > > Some work: > > Custom RoR CMS for Natalie Merchant www.nataliemerchant.com > > New PC client + web API for Poughkeepsie startup: www.visionscape.com > > Joined MHVLUG to source good *nix admins and open minded devs looking to do > cool work locally. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Kale Kaposhilin > Director of Operations > Evolving Media Network > 721 Broadway Suite 200 > Kingston, NY 12401 > > O. 845.338.3220 x-101 > M. 914.388.4480 > F. 845.853.1083 > > > > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Paul Chauvet wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to drum up some publicity for the LUG, hopefully leading to a > story in one of the local newspapers (Poughkeepsie Journal especially, but > the Kingston Freeman and Middletown Times Herald Record, and one or more of > the Ulster Publishing papers (New Paltz Times, Kingston Times, etc.). > > > > To help facilitate that, I'm trying to get some information to them that > might make next month's "Arduino-paluzza" an attractive meeting for them to > visit. Would anyone care to share with me any projects that they plan on > bringing to the July meeting (by Monday if at all possible). Aside from the > press coverage, I want to use some of these on flyers I'm going to be > posting/mailing on Monday. > > > > > > P.S. Are there any weeklies that publish in/around Poughkeepsie > (something equivalent to the New Paltz or Kingston times)? > > > > - Paul > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza > > Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting > > Sep 7 - Thing-o-Matic > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza > Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting > Sep 7 - Thing-o-Matic >
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