Speakers for LDD in Boston

[mmorin at schedsys.com (Massimo Morin)]

Hi,
	I don't know if it is possible but why don't we do seminars or seminar
cycles (2 or 3 dates each) on a certain topic (Installing Linux, using
Gimp, Emacs, debugging tools, samba, apache, tcl/tk, scripting in
general, etc etc etc): we send out mail and/or invitation to certain
company/professionist that can be interested on that and we charge them
a fee of partecipation???

In this way you have:
1)  people are incentivated to do the seminar (you are talking with
someone that is REALLY interested on the topic)
2)  the speaker can "make its name" on the "worrking arena"
3)  enstablish contacts between the BLU and the "working world"
4)  if everything is reasonably good for a reasonable price people will
start talking about us
5)  spread the Linux word   

.. last bat not least you rise money even for the "teacher/speaker"

To every company/professionist that partecipate to these, you can invite
them for free to the speech of, for example, Jeremy ;)

I will be very happy to contribute to this ;)

This is only an idea but...

Cheers
		Massimo


Blake Parker wrote:
> 
> This is one of the reasons we need to find a way to generate some money
> for the group. We do not charge any membership fees and what we make on
> an Installfest isn't enough to pay transportation expenses for speakers.
> I'd like to have peoples ideas on what we can do to generate some money
> the group can use for special purposes. Email discussion is a way to start
> this process and at some point an informal meeting could be scheduled.
> 
> --Blake
> 
> Blake Parker
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux & UNIX
> mailto:bfp at blu.org
> http://www.blu.org
> 
> 
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> From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Charles C. Bennett, Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:14 PM
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Speakers for LDD in Boston
> 
> Hi All -
> 
>    Here's the deal on the availability for Jeremy Allison the week of
> LDD.  He's in Washington DC the preceding week.  If we're really interested
> in hearing him, SGI expects us to pay his way.
> 
>    Should we pass the hat and show him some fine Yankee hospitality or
> would you rather we pass?
> 
> ccb
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> Subject: Re: Speakers for LDD in Boston
> To: ccb at kukla.tiac.net (Charles C. Bennett Jr.)
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT)
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> howdy -
> 
> jeremy's in DC til the 10th of september.  his itinerary up to
> that point is paid for.  seems to me the incremental expense of
> providing lodging for him for 2 or 3 days and a flight from DC
> to boston and back are quite a deal.  if you can find the budget
> to cover this additional expense i'm sure jeremy would love to
> provide value-add.  if this isn't possible, we need him here.
> 
> thanks -- cleo
> 
> ps - piyush - could you call me?  3-2051.  thanks!
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi Jeremy -
> >
> >    At this point in our Boston LUG (blu.org) sceduling we've
> > identified three venues and have a verbal commit from one of them.
> > The one that we have a verbal for is Softpro, mentioned in the last
> > mail message.  I don't think the event at Softpro will come off any
> > earlier than 9/13 although we might be able to push for the 12th.
> >
> >    As for accommodations, we're not SVLUG.  We have a large email
> > readership and very small monthly meetings.  If SGI wants to foot the
> > bill and write this off as part of it's sponsorship, that's cool.
> > Otherwise I'll have to scratch around and see where we can put you :-).
> >
> >    On another note - you mention flying back from DC.  Do you know
> > Greg Pryzby at NoVALUG?  I'm sure those guys would love to see you
> > while you're in DC.  Drop him a line at pryzby at tux.org.
> >
> > ccb
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Charles C. Bennett, Jr.                               VA Linux Systems
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> > +1 617 543-6513                                       +1 888-LINUX-4U
> > ccb at valinux.com                                       www.valinux.com
> >
> >                  "We put the Oh! in .org"
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