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fyi proof there is an actual conversation happening about linuxcon/s. so since there's no megameeting this year should we go for a linuxcon in boston? >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:40:46 -0500 >Errors-To: macar at amethyst.educ.kent.edu >Reply-To: linuxcon at amethyst.educ.kent.edu >Originator: linuxcon at amethyst.educ.kent.edu >Sender: linuxcon at amethyst.educ.kent.edu >From: mjmc at whitepine.com (MJ McEvoy) >To: rodney at sabletech.com >Subject: Re: What to see and do at Linuxcon >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas > >Don Marti wrote: ><stuff deleted> > >>1. Task-focused seminars. Seems like most Linux people can figure out ><stuff deleted> >>* free and commercial options for using Linux as a file server >> >>* RDBMSs for Linux >> >>* Starting an Internet Service Provider in your garage with Linux >> >>2. Trade show. I really dig trade shows and would like to see as many ><stuff deleted> >>Free software authors and compilers of free distributions should get >>booths at no cost to promote their projects, answer questions, sell >>printed documentation, and accept donations. >> ><shameless hometown advocacy deleted> > >I agree, but I think concurrent regionals with CU-SEEME type links would be >better, and show off the capabilities of LINUX and the people who are >pushing it. > >Besides, most of the _commercial_ type applications development I do is for >a more local audience. > >IMHO, the small business community is a more likely user of LINUX and >applications for LINUX, not to mention many of us who were and still are >attracted to the _price_ because it's all we could afford. > >To repeat myself - concurrent regionals have the capabilities to show-off LINUX. > >My .02 > >TTFN, > > Mike > >// WhitePine Consulting http://www.whitepine.com >// PO Box 721 info at whitepine.com >// Madison, WI 53701 voice +1.608.277.5540 TDD +1.608.277.5544 >// Providing LINUX and GNU support for small business and non-profits > > > Rodney Thayer :: rodney at sabletech.com Sable Technology Corp :: +1 617 332 7292 246 Walnut St :: Fax: +1 617 332 7970 Newton MA 02160 USA :: http://www.shore.net/~sable "Developers of communications software"
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