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Count me in for Monday afternoon. Bill "Charles C. Bennett, Jr." wrote: > Hi All - > > We're getting ready to nail down Softpro for an LDD event. At > this point I need volunteers to help man the thing. We can set up > on Sunday 9/12, Monday 9/13 or both. > > I'd like folks to step forward for 4 hour slots. I'd be happiest > doing Monday. I think Jeremy and I (and maybe Bill Okerman and Ted > T'so) could hold the fort for most of Monday afternoon if I could have > two folks working relief starting right around afternoon rush... > > Talk it up. Let me know what you all think. > > ccb > > ------- Forwarded Message > > Return-Path: rick at softproeast.com > Delivery-Date: Tue Sep 7 03:30:58 1999 > Return-Path: <rick at softproeast.com> > Received: from smtp-spool-1.tiac.net (smtp-spool-1.tiac.net [199.0.65.50]) > by kukla.tiac.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA17911 > for <ccb at kukla.tiac.net>; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:30:56 -0400 > Received: from relay20.smtp.psi.net (relay20.smtp.psi.net [38.8.20.2]) > by smtp-spool-1.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA01713 > for <ccb at kukla.tiac.net>; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:31:35 -0400 (EDT) > Received: from [206.119.246.47] (helo=newmicronpc) > by relay20.smtp.psi.net with smtp (Exim 1.90 #1) > for ccb at kukla.tiac.net > id 11OAzU-0005Ol-00; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:28:12 -0400 > Message-ID: <001901bef8d8$8f85fd60$2ff677ce at newmicronpc> > From: "rick treitman" <rick at softproeast.com> > To: "Charles C. Bennett, Jr." <ccb at kukla.tiac.net> > Subject: Re: Linux Demo Days 9/12/99 - 9/19/99 > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:27:28 -0400 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > sounds great. > let me know when you want to stop by. > > 9/12 is a sunday - we're only open from 12:00 - 5:00. > 9/13, monday we're open from 9:00 - 8:00, but it isn't a weekend. > > which hours do you plan to cover? > > r. > > - -----Original Message----- > From: Charles C. Bennett, Jr. <ccb at kukla.tiac.net> > To: Rick Treitman <rick at softpro.com> > Cc: jabr at blu.org <jabr at blu.org> > Date: Saturday, September 04, 1999 2:52 AM > Subject: Re: Linux Demo Days 9/12/99 - 9/19/99 > > > > >> sure, we'd be happy to have you. > >> send me the details. > > > > > >Hi Rick - > > > > Sorry for the lag on getting back to you. > > > > We'd like to set up a couple of tables and a small network of as > >many as four machines in the back of the store. These will all be > >intel-based PC's. Three of the machines will be running Red Hat Linux > >6.0 or a derivative, one WindowsNT or Windows98. Of the Linux machines, > >one is likely to be an SMP server in a mid-tower case, one a workstation > >in a mini-tower case or a Sony VAIO laptop and one an old clunker to > >demo how well Linux performs on equipment that Windows can't support. > > > > We'll be working as volunteers. I'll be there for the whole shift > >and will shame a number of the others into making themselves present > >(and presentable) to help out. > > > > We have some demo materials coming in from the sponsor companies. > >From what I've seen so far, it's pretty shabby. We'll be working up > >our own presentations to pitch the features of the system. The > >intention is to focus on a positive message about Linux features and > >reliability without getting sucked into an MS-bashing thing. We'll > >have a prepared presentation that we can make throughout the day or we > >can work a more free-form format and provide the presentation as > >handouts or on diskettes. > > > > We're more than happy to have you structure a merchandise display > >around the demo area to facilitate our ability to get Linux product > >into the hands of interested visitors. We're planning an > >"Installfest" event elsewhere the weekend of the 25th to help turn new > >buyers into active users (and consumers of O'Reilly books). > > > > Provided we can stage this event on 9/12 or 9/13, we have the use > >of Jeremy Allison, one of the key developers of the Samba file and > >print service system. His employer, SGI, has agreed to allow him to > >take a side trip to Boston for this event before returning to work in > >Silicon Valley later in the week. With Mr. Allison in town, a > >scheduled tech talk associated with our event might be in order, where > >interested parties could arrive at a specific time for a presentation > >specifically covering the latest work being done with Samba. > > > > Whatever the structure of this thing, we'll be putting our own > >muscle into promotion. The linuxdemo.org people are planning to > >issue press releases at the national level and are providing packages > >of materials for local events. > > > > If you like, I can come by the store to talk more. > > > >ccb > > > > > >---- > >Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA Linux Systems > >Systems Engineer, 1382 Bordeaux Dr. > >US Northeast Region Sunnyvale, CA 94089 > >+1 617 543-6513 +1 888-LINUX-4U > >ccb at valinux.com www.valinux.com > > > > "We put the Oh! in .org" > > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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