Re: [LUG] OpenSource Day

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

On Friday 19 Apr 2002 8:33 pm, psutton wrote:
> I have laptop running Win98 SE,  and a working ethernet rj45 adaptor with a
> few gig of free space,
>
>
> Paul

anything you're after?

> ----- 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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