Hey gang,
So, every now and then, a hardware or software vendor asks us if we'd be
interested in a demo of their product at our SLUG meetings. Unfortunately,
most of these requests are wildly out of scope, but sometimes there are
really cool ones, like the Sony Playstation development kit demo. We didn't
want to pass that one up. Very on topic, very cool. :-)
Assuming the following points:
* A vendor demo would almost always replace one of our talks; very rarely
would they be speedy ten minute jobs (and if they were, it's more than
likely that they'd just be uninformative ads, so would not be very
interesting anyway)
* We'd only accept FOSS-related or otherwise on topic demos
* We'd encourage a technical and/or community focus, rather than a
marketing or advertising focus, so hopefully the demo would feel just
like a normal SLUG talk anyway (the Sony one was pretty good in this
respect)
How does everyone feel about having more regular demos such as these? Should
we actively seek demos of cool products that SLUGgers are interested in? Let
us know what you think!
Thanks,
- Jeff
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