[wellylug] Meeting 10th March

[Lindsay Hunter]

Yes, it is the businesslike look that is new.  It is more about business
use than installing?  I will help where I can.  Count me in.  But I am
inexperienced.  Big displays.  Accounting packages. Support teams?

Do we know what small to medium business is looking for when they look at IT?

L

> --- Lindsay Hunter <lindsay at csw.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that makes sense.  Is NZOSS interested?
>
> As an NZOSS member, I can say yes, coz I am.... not that different to
> Wellylug.
> If someone takes it & runs, it will happen....
>
> I'd like to think there is enough FOSS stuff around to do this well, but
> it
> really needs proper organisation, corporate booths, etc. More professional
> than
> the stuff I've been doing at 'fests :-)
>
> Summat I'm planning (have been for a while, just haven't been around long
> enough for the last 18 months) is a demo on Sat mornings at the Wainui
> Mall, in
> association with the local bookshop, who stock & sell a few of the major
> Linux
> mags. Dunno why there is such interest here, but there is a better
> selection
> than in most places.
>
> Simple small thing, a few books mags & a Linux box to demo & answer
> questions
> with some disks to give away. I haven't really chased it up since a basic
> question about 18 months ago. If this goes OK I was thinking about seeing
> Dymocks, who now have a shop in Queensgate/Westfield mall in Lower Hutt.
> about
> trying one there. A much larger audience there....
>
> Keeping things at a scale I can do myself at this stage.
>
>>
>> Sorry to hear about your wife.  Give her our regards.
>
> Will do, thanks! She's still around & doing pretty well. NIWA flew our
> daughter
> back from the states to help look after her which was pretty neat...
>
> Spotcha,
>
>    Brent
>
>>
>> Lindsay
>>
>> > -
>> >> > > I wonder if we could have another discussion of a Linux expo in
>> >> > > Wellington rather than an Installfest?  It seems an attractive
>> idea
>> >> for
>> >> > > many.  The question is how do you go about it?
>> >> >
>> >> > How about we schedule that in for the next meeting, so those
>> >> interested
>> >> > in being involved get plenty of warning? :-)
>> >>
>> >> By next meeting, I meant April 14th. :-)
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi y'all...
>> >
>> > Looks like I'm back in Wgtn for a while. My wife was hit by a car
>> (driver
>> > on
>> > cellphone) while I was down in Antarctica, & it looks like some long
>> term
>> > health problems from this will stop my travels for a while....
>> >
>> > Lindsay, I don't see an installfest & expo as exclusive. The last two
>> > 'fests I
>> > organised seemed to have as much interest in the various presentations
>> as
>> > in
>> > Linux installs. I would think that presentations, workshops,
>> > demonstrations &
>> > installs all fit well under an "EXPO" banner.
>> >
>> > While I'm happy to organise a small 'fest with a few presentations,
>> > (noting
>> > that if I'm not around, no-one else steps up, so last year there
>> wasn't
>> > one), I
>> > certainly don't have the skills, knowledge or time to organise a
>> serious
>> > expo,
>> > and this suggests it is unlikely anyone else will take this on from
>> > Wellylug.
>> > Though I'm happy to be proved wrong!!
>> >
>> > Personally, I think that NZOSS is a more appropriate group to do this
>> than
>> > Wellylug, as a national organisation with more corporate involvement.
>> >
>> > After the success of last years NZ Open Source Awards, & with events
>> like
>> > Software Freedom Day, it may be better if such an expo looked at
>> having
>> > all
>> > these events somewhat concurrently? That is sort of what an expo
>> implies
>> > to me
>> > anyway.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >    Brent
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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