Business-to-Linux event (Was- A group statement on SCO's actions)

[Ryan Winkler]

I like it.  Count me in :)

I wonder how large of a place would be necessary to hold such an event.  
Could it be held in a high school gym or maybe somewhere at BYU or UVSC or 
the U?  We'd need to make it large enough to be worth the businesses' time 
to come out.  Probably little demo booths of different stuff.  M$ Office 
replacements in booth A, MySQL in booth B, Apache web technologies in booth 
C, Linux distributions in booths D-G, JBoss in booth E, PostGRESQL in booth 
F... etc.  We could possibly even get sponsors to do something.  And nobody 
tell SCO.

Sounds like fun... and probably qualifies as enough of a geek event to get 
t-shirts printed :)  After all, it's all about the t-shirts.

>I think this would be a great idea and I would definitely volunteer my time 
>to help organize an event like this. I do think for it to be done right 
>though,  it will take a lot of time and planning. We might want to consider 
>doing it as a joint effort with the SLC-LUG to involve a wider market and 
>more businesses. I think this would be smart in order to get alot of 
>involvement to make this a success.
>    If anyone else is serious about this, we need to set a target date, 
>time and place. When inviting the local businesses I think it would be 
>important to get some kind of information as to what applications or 
>services each business currently uses so that we can target specific needs. 
>We can even invite representatives from some of the Linux distros or other 
>Linux friendly software organizations, such as OpenOffice.org. Maybe I'm 
>getting a little carried away and maybe this is alittle more invovled then 
>what Bill was envisioning, but I think as a LUG we can make a great impact 
>in the community and this might be something that can be very beneficial.  
>I see it almost as  a mini-convention for business-to-Linux event.  Who 
>knows if this is a big enough of a success we might set a trend for other 
>LUGs to follow suit. If Linux is to reach it's fullest potential and full 
>support (i.e. from hardware and software organizations) it's not going to 
>come from a corporation like IBM or some of the many others who carefully 
>tread the surface of Linux-ism half-heartly. Linux was built by the 
>community and if it is to grow and be supported and taken seriously, it 
>will have to invovle the community as well, doing an event like this for 
>the simple fact that no one else will. Many organizations see Linux as a 
>risk with a potential loss, where we (the community) really don't have much 
>to loose. We've embraced Linux and we know what it can do. We know what it 
>can do for businesses and schools. This can be our opportunity to really do 
>something to help others instead of meeting once a month and discussing vi 
>or perl programming tips (now I'm not saying those things don't have there 
>place and aren't useful). I'm just saying I think that our LUG can be more 
>active in promoting Linux. I know it probably sounds like I've been 
>watching to many "hackers-unite-and-take-over-the-world" movies, and maybe 
>I have, but I still think this is a good idea.
>    Please let me know if I'm completely off my rocker or if this is 
>legitiment proposal and something we can do and put together?
>Thanks,
>Jared
>
>
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