Re: [LUG] OpenSource Day

[David Barker <D.R.Barker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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