All: Something interesting for this meeting (and which will dovetail nicely into our January Install-Fest):
Netraverse -- the makers of the Win4Lin Windows bridging software -- is sponsoring Linux Users Groups. The details of the program can be found at http://www.netraverse.com/LUG. I contacted them in this regard, and recieved the following attached reply. Ultimately, what this means is: 1. The LUG gets a complimentary license for the software. 2. All LUG members get a $20 discount on Win4Lin Workstation Edition 4.0 3. The LUG gets a listing on Netraverse's Web site (http://netraverse.com/LUG/lugs.php) 4. Netraverse would LIKE (but does not require) the LUG to display a sponsorship logo on its Web site (see http://www.netraverse.com/LUG). I've got the license key -- they sent it to me attached to the e-mail. While it seems pretty clear that the key is for the single complimentary copy of the software given to the LUG, goodness knows I've been occasionally remiss and have left such things laying around in public where they might be read by person or persons unknown. It's very possible that during the next meeting and/or January Install-Fest, I might bring the license certificate along for my own edification. If I then happened to leave it laying around where LUG members could see it, I hardly think I could be held responsible. Certainly I plan to install Win4Lin as part of my late-December RHL8.0 upgrade, so by the January Install-Fest, I'll be in a good position to discuss how well it seems to work. Bill Stone ----- Forwarded message from NeTraverse LUG Program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "NeTraverse LUG Program" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: LUG Support Participation Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:41:57 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SpamBouncer: 1.5 (7/17/02) X-SBPass: Oversize-LeanTagged X-SBPass: No Freemail Filtering X-SBClass: OK Bill, Thank you for your interest. Here is our standard recruitment letter, I have gleaned the information we needed from your last email. The second note in this email has all the details about special offers for your members. Finally there is a complimentary license attached to this email. Recruitment letter: We have seen Linux grow, in large part, from the work and evangelism that has occurred in computer user groups like yours. We would like to help sponsor these efforts by donating software and support to your LUG, coupled with a special member-only offer. NeTraverse would like to offer you a free license for our Win4Lin Workstation Edition 4.0 software (an $89.99 value) - the best way to bridge Windows to Linux, especially for those hard to replace applications. In addition, we would like to offer your membership a discount of $20 off the retail price of Win4Lin Workstation Edition 4.0. To take advantage of the member discount, we ask that you notify your membership by email, or announce at your monthly meeting, that NeTraverse is now sponsoring you and that members are entitled to the special benefits described in the welcome letter. We would like to list all sponsored LUGs on our LUG page (http://www.netraverse.com/LUG/) and continue to make special offers to all LUG members. This would be done by sending you an email so you can decide whether to include it in your normal user group communications (NeTraverse does not want to, and will not, SPAM you with junk mail). We are very excited about this chance to help the communities that have helped us. If you would like to sign up for this offer please reply to this email with the following information so we may update our records: LUG Name City State Administrative Contact Name Administrative Contact Email LUG URL We will reply with our welcome letter and an electronic certificate with a Win4Lin license code. You will also be informed on how to help your members take advantage of our LUG sponsorship discounts. Acceptance Letter: Thank you for accepting our offer to become a NeTraverse sponsored LUG. We are very excited to be part of the success of your User�s Group. We are initially offering a copy of our Win4Lin 4.0 Workstation Edition License (a $89.99 value) for you to offer to one of your members in whatever way you see fit. The attached PDF file is a license certificate that can be printed out and offered to anyone in your LUG, it includes instructions for downloading and using our software. We also would like to offer a discount to any of your members on our electronic version of our software. Your members can claim a $20 discount off of our $89.99 retail price at http://www.netraverse.com/LUG/special.htm. We do have a badge program that we offer the opportunity for you to add our sponsored by NeTraverse LUG logo to your web page. Information is available at www.netraverse.com/LUG/ participation is voluntary. Additionally, in the upcoming months we will be offering additional free software as well as discounts on other software from our partners and ourselves as part of our LUG Sponsorship program. Thank you for accepting our invitation and please let us know if this there is anything else we can do to support your LUG. Regards, Mark R. Hinkle Vice President NeTraverse www.netraverse.com/LUG/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LUG Support Participation Sirs: I am a charter member of the Sioux City Linux Users Group (http://sclinux.org). We are interested in your sponsorship program and are curious as to how to participate. Thanks, Bill Stone ____________________________________________________________________________ William Stone, III | No human being has the right -- under | any circumstances -- to initiate force [EMAIL PROTECTED] | against another human being, nor to http://www.wrstone.com | advocate or delegate its initiation. ___________________________________|________________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----
