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Well, if we want, we can go crazy and email a million Linux companies and
ask for stuff to give away. When I was considering starting a Demo Day and
put myself on the LDD mailing list, I got a heap of stuff (now brutally
outdated) that was of some interest.
That takes about a month or so for any kind of decent response. We could
probably get servers loaned (or donated for raffle usage) from VA, Penguin,
etc. as well as having our own there for showcasing our own stuff. We
should have a system for each major distro, plus systems designed for
specific usages (ie. a server-only setup, a workstation, laptop, etc) to
cover all the possible uses of Linux.
We should put games on them, have StarOffice, apps running under WINE, a
variety of window managers, etc.
The corporate sponsors of past LDD's included:
Caldera
EST (BRU guys)
LinuxCare
Linux Central
Linux Mall
Red Hat
SGI
SuSE
Turbo Linux
TuxTops
Applix
Corel
and that's about all I can remember. We should hit them up for stuff as
well as anyplace else that would be willing/have interesting items for
donation. Stuff that's raffle-able or give-away-able is of most interest
(Applix gave a boxed set, a bunch of CD's of their programming suite, and a
modified Tux, all of interest to people who come and show interest in
Linux).
Anything you need me to do, I'd be glad to do. I haven't been amazingly
active in PLUG, but I can be ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Bill Jonas
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 4:24 PM
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Installfest
>
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2000, M. Simons wrote:
>
> >Okay, a few corrections here... I'm talking about MEETING ROOMS at
> >libraries... they are typically enclosed off enough from the rest of the
>
> Hey, good call on that. I was picturing the library we had back home
> that I guess is kind of smallish (although it's not little) by
> comparison to some of the monsters around here. :)
>
> It'd be nifty if we could get, say, a representative demo machine for
> each major distro (then again, that's kind of overkill). Should this be
> set up for the upcoming month, or should we aim to have our first one in
> July sometime?
>
> Bill
> --
> >Ever heard of .cshrc? | "Linux means never having to delete
> That's a city in Bosnia. Right? | your love mail." -- Don Marti
> (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc | http://www.netaxs.com/~bj/
> on the intuitiveness of commands.) | http://www.harrybrowne.org/
>
>
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