[wellylug] Linux Expo

[Jethro Carr]

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 08:02 +1200, Lindsay Hunter wrote:
> We briefly discussed another Installfest a few months ago.  The 
> enthusiasm waned.  Given that the planet has moved on etc, is there 
> another option?.  Do we need another option?  What makes more sense to 
> me now is a Linux Expo, with all the entrepreneurs in Wellington showing 
> what they can do, have done, etc, and in one corner, a display and 
> information desk for home users?  It seems to me that local Linux 
> business needs a venue to show local small business that they have an 
> alternative, and let them size up the vendors without getting the feet 
> wet?  Or do we wait for Dell?

this is a brilliant idea - I would certainly be keen on helping organise
this, and I imagine many local businesses would been keen to present.

We can use the wellylug-org mailing list for discussing this - it's not
getting used for anything else at the moment.


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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