On 6/17/10 8:28 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Hey all, > > As our Dayton Lead ( Jordan ) has recently reminded me, we have some > stuff to take care of! > > This is the official start of OLF plotting. Let's try and get some > donations in the jar to snag a table again this year. > > If we can get $100+ over what we need, we can get a banner too ( It's > like a crappy video game! ) > > > Jordan will be taking lead on OLF plotting, so he has the final word > on what goes on! > > > Viva La Open-Source! > Paul > >
Fearless Leader asked that I remember to hit "Reply All" rather than "Reply" so the list could benefit from what I wrote relative to OLF. As I wrote to Paul with one small correction to add a "GNU" where it belongs: > For better or for worse, I did get a presentation proposal in. The > proposal was: > > TITLE: Linux and Libraries: Opportunities For Evangelism > > SUMMARY: Public libraries are fertile grounds for promoters of Linux to > act. As beachheads in today's knowledge ecology, libraries present > opportunities for evangelism. Beyond simply standing behind a table > handing out install discs, how can evangelism go deeper? Through > service opportunities and ideas for community-initiated programs, ways > to go beyond passing out discs will be explored so that the Linux > community might increase in numbers. > > BIO: Stephen Michael Kellat is currently the Head Writer of Erie Looking > Productions in Ashtabula County and presenter of "LISTen: An LISNews.org > Podcast". He holds the degree of Master of Science in Library Science > from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Current adventures in Linux > including running Lucid Lynx on an older PowerPC G4 system. > > I haven't presented any papers for a while due to budgetary limits so my > pitch to OLF was speculative for now. If you want to look at other > papers I've actually delivered at conferences, you can find such here: > > http://eprints.rclis.org/11015/ > http://eprints.rclis.org/11016/ > > Both are in a GNU EPrints-based archive which uses software you can find > here: http://www.eprints.org/software/ For now, I have to wait for an up or down on the pitch. SMK -- +-----------------------------------------+ |Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS | |+1 440 813 6488 (mobile phone) | |+1 440 415 7205 (SMS message phone) | |DC5A625B (Currently Valid OpenPGP Key) | |[email protected] (e-mail) | |http://identi.ca/alpacaherder (microblog)| +-----------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
