I would like to see demos. I can think of a few vendors that have products of interest. The main thing I would like to see is the product was running Linux. Not just FOSS, as that can cover a multitude of items.
Examples: (some of these obviously would have to be a graphical presentation rather than a demo) The Beowulf cluster of Sony Playstations; Sun LX50s (or whatever is replacing them); IBM mainframes running lots of Linux images Software vendors who are keen to announce the port of their application to Linux; Cyclades devices; Firewalls - in - a - box (running Linux) ... Cheers, Jill. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2003 5:12 PM To: Penguinillas Subject: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do you think? 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 -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "Python amazes me for its concision. The current prototype is all of 900 lines of code, yet it contains a lexer, parser (recursive descent), core language interpreter, and parallelizing process spawner." - Raph Levien on Rebar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
