On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 19:30, Bruce Badger wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > >Could you be a little more specific on what you are trying to achieve > >with the presentation? (i.e. 'show my peers that it is possible for a > >business to take a thought out, risk-managing approach to a project, and > >still end up with an open-source tool/environment/package as part of the > >projects solution'). > > > The ideal would be a speaker from some rather conservative type company > (e.g. bank, insurance company).
Ah. I know a few of those :}. I'm not sure if I know someone who is not an evangelist, and saw such a project go ahead though. > An employee who was there while a > project happened, but who could not be accused of being an evangelist, > or a vendor with a vested interest. It would be good, though, if the > speaker knows how to give an interesting presentation :-) Rules me out :[. It'd be very easy to accuse me of evangelical behaviour :}. > Stories like: > > "How we replaced all our web-edge system with OSS" > "What benefits we saw in moving to a standards + OSS based mail solution" > > would be good. > > Does this help, Rob? Yep :}. Hopefully someone on the list will meet both requirements :} (not evangelist, has seen such projects happen). Rob
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