5 July 2000 meeting

[Dave Parker]

This is not directly related to structure and organization of the
LUG, but it's something we might want to think about.  We might 
want to consider approaching some Linux-related companies about 
sponsoring a booth at the upcoming ITEC show on Dec. 6 & 7.  
Having several companies contribute both funding and materials to 
a large booth that we could staff would be a way to get Linux out 
in front of people who might not otherwise be exposed to it.  It's 
only five months away, so it's definitely not too soon to start 
thinking about doing that if anyone's interested.  This is the way 
Linux related shows started out anyway - with a booth here and there 
and soon entire shows.  Starting small is not a bad idea...

Altona Duston wrote:
> 
> A potential topic of discussion for the next meeting:
> Should we organize into a more formal structure.  Some advantages
> would be that we would be in a better position for any future
> conferences, we could have better internal things at our meetings to
> provide better service to the membership.  One big disadvantage would
> be that it would be a lot more work, and possibly finances would
> become necessary in the not to distant future.  One idea that was
> brought up during LinuxFest was to alternate having InstallFest and
> Demo days on the alternate meetings, i.e. InstallFest on Wednesday in
> August, Demo day on Tuesday in August, and then Demo day on Wednesday
> in September and InstallFest on Tuesday in September.  This would also
> give us more experience hosting very small events, that we could
> possibly scale up at some time in the future...
> 
> Hal Duston
> hald at sound.net
> Boring is good.
> A conformist in a nonconformist world.
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