Re: [LUG] OpenSource Day

["psutton" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have laptop running Win98 SE,  and a working ethernet rj45 adaptor with a
few gig of free space,


Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Barker" <D.R.Barker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [LUG] OpenSource Day


> Hi there - I'm afraid nick's away for a while, so I suppose I'll have to
do as
> a slug representative ;)
>
> I can only confirm a few things, but we're open to ideas:
>
> We'll be able to provide demo's of Jabber, on multiple desktops with
multiple
> clients (WinXP & a few windows clients will even be there if I can
convince
> someone that it's safe to bring a MS box to an open source day ;)
>
> We're going to get our machines there so we can demo different desktops,
etc
> etc - I think the current mixture includes an SMP mandrake 8.2 box with
kde
> 3, a slack 8.0 box with enlightenment/gtk , a slack 8.0 box with kde 3, a
> debian box. (I might bring along my old sparc station for use as an XDMCP
> terminal if anyone thinks its a good idea) These boxes can be used to
> demonstrate almost anything - we have a copy of StarOffice 6 final linux
> edition thanks to mandrake, which people might want to take a look at.
>
> We can also show off Unreal Tournament, Quake III, Wolfenstein and a few
games
> under winex (eg Half Life, Max Payne) on one or two of these boxes.
>
> An idea that's been floating about as well - if people want to bring in
> laptops with plenty of free space & an ethernet adapter, we will probably
be
> able to supply mirrors of some of the major distros ;)
>
> I asked Mandrake a while ago if they'd be able to send us anything - they
> seemed to think they'd be able to get posters, and few download edition
CD's
> to us, but I haven't heard anything from them in about a week, so I'll try
> and chase them up soon.
>
> I can't think of anything else atm - any other ideas?
>
> Dave
> :)
>
>
>
> On Thursday 18 Apr 2002 9:10 am, Simon Waters wrote:
> > Neil Stone wrote:
> > > Any news, confirmed dates, posters etc ???
> >
> > Still Saturday 27th April 10:00AM
> >
> > Poster still on www.wretched.demon.co.uk/openday.pdf
> >
> > We are just confirming the programme. A few more
> > demo's/demonstraters are needed, depending on what the EU LUG
> > are expecting to provide. They seemed dead keen, but then
> > disappeared for Easter I suspect...
> >
> >  Simon
> >
> >
> > PS:
> >
> > The SWLUG are discussing a Trampolining and Linux Install day on
> > May 19th, but we still need to confirm that.... Should also be
> > fun, hopefully they will have details confirmed before the Open
> > Source Day...
>
>
>
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