on the chance that anyone's interested... ----- Forwarded message from David Champion <dave at visionary.com> ----- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:26:58 -0000 From: "David Champion" <dave at visionary.com> Subject: [SCALUG] Gnomedex event To: <linux at scalug.org> X-Mailer: TWIG 2.6.2 Hey guys... I haven't been keeping up on your list lately, but looks like SCALUG is still going strong. Hope things are going well for you and you're not drinking too much Grain Belt Premium up there. This is a copy of an email I've sent to my LUG here in Des Moines, as well as other Iowa LUG's in Ames, Cedar Falls, and the Quad Cities. I would like to extend this invite to any of you people. I'm not on the TCLUG list, so if any of you want to fwd this to them that would be great. If you've never heard of Gnomedex or Lockergnome... Lockergnome is a big, mostly windows user oriented daily newsletter that goes out to several hundred thousand readers. The founder, Chris Pirillo, is from Des Moines, and just recently moved out to the Bay Area to join the TechTV staff. We're participating in the convention to have a good time and shake up those Windows users, and show them what they're missing. The convention is at the Polk County Convention Center in Des Moines IA (a very nice facility). The sites in quetion here are: http://www.cialug.org http://www.dsmgg.org http://www.gnomedex.com http://www.lockergnome.com Oh... and since I just lurk here occasionally, if you want to reach me, email me directy. Thx. -dc > I've been meeting with the Gnomedex staff about the participation of CIALUG and DSMGG at the convention on 9/14 & 15. This is growing into a pretty big deal. > > DSMGG is going to provide the networking equipment for both themselves and CIALUG. (Bryan Baker and I are members of both groups). > > CIALUG will have a full sized booth for doing demos of various Linux apps. We will also be doing an installfest. > > We would love to see participation from AAFUGIT, CedarLUG, QCLUG and anyone else too. This is going to be a big event, and will be great exposure for Linux and our groups. Did I mention that Microsoft is one of the major sponsors? > > What I need: > > - Need a news blurb on the web site > - We need to reactivate the installfest form, so people coming from the Gnomedex site will be able to fill one out. > - Need VOLUNTEERS! Both demo and installers. > - Need to contact linux vendors (RedHat and such) about the possibility of getting promo materials. > - Need to burn CDR's of the latest distro's. I have 100 CDR's of my own. We will charge $5 per cd (so that would be $10 for both CD's of Mandrake for instance) as a donation to the DSMGG general fund - covers server costs and such. > > Volunteers will get a full free admission to the event, this includes the convention floor, speakers, and an open-bar party Saturday night. You will need to bring your PC if you're doing demos. I will have one PC for linux stuff there, and my laptop, one of those will be for the gaming stuff tho'. You will also be able to participate in the LAN party during your "off" time. I would like to see in the neighborhood of 10 LUG volunteers in addition to Bryan and I... we will probably be tied up with DSMGG stuff for a lot of the time, since we're both server admins. > > Set up will start at 6am on that Friday, the event opens at 9am, and closes at 5pm on Saturday. > > Please email me back at dave at visionary.com, and make the subject "gnomedex installfest" if you plan to participate as a volunteer. > > -- > David Champion > el Presidente, CIALUG _______________________________________________ Linux maillist - Linux at scalug.org http://mailman.cloudnet.com/mailman/listinfo/linux St Cloud Area Linux Users group ... www.scalug.org ----- End forwarded message ----- Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700