Re: SILUG Presentation

[lwhite@apci.net]

Quoting "James L. Burke" <jburke@burkepoirier.com>:

> Hey Folks,
> 
> I just wanted to make sure everyone in the group was informed about an
> upcoming meeting that I will be participating in.
> 
> Many of you may remember that we had some visitors a few months back
> from a
> local recruiting, consulting, hiring, and training firm (Janet Micheel
> of
> RCH).  This firm is sponsoring the July Belleville Chamber of Commerce
> Business After Hours.  They wanted to have a presentation on Linux and
> the
> Open Source Movement.
> 
> I have agreed to give that presentation and basically I will be giving
> a
> "case study" on what Burke & Poirier Law Firm has done with Linux,
> Apache,
> Sendmail, MySQL, PHP, etc...
> 
> The Chamber's July Business After Hours is this Thursday the 12th at
> 5:00
> p.m. at the Clinton Hill Country Club on Old Collinsville Road in
> Swansea.
> I anticipate this presentation being about 15 minutes and them a
> question
> and answer.  I will be giving the presentation at 5:30 and again at
> 6:30.
> 
> I regularly attend these Business After Hours and find that these events
> are
> usually well attended by local business owners.  These small business
> owners
> are just the type of people who struggle with technology and the cost
> of
> licensing software and the cost of software that just doesn't work.
> 
> I think this is a good opportunity to promote the virtues of open source
> to
> someone other than people who already understand the concept.  These
> are
> just the type of people who could make open source a "mainstream"
> distribution method.  Also, the vast majority of these business owners
> don't
> want to learn how to do this themselves - they are not likely to become
> SILUG members ... they just want it to work! and undoubtedly one of the
> main
> questions I will get will be about support.
> 
> Therefore, I thought some SILUG members might want to show up and help
> answer questions and, especially for those of you who consult for a
> living,
> you could help demonstrate in person that there are professionals who
> can
> support Open Source Software and help small businesses take advantage
> of
> this licensing alternative.
> 
> If anyone is interested in helping out with this event it should only
> take
> about an hour and a half of your time.  I would like to have some
> technical
> expertise available for the possible Windows NT advocate/heckler
> (though
> truthfully I could probably handle two MCSE's with one hand tied behind
> my
> back) and it might also be interesting to have some cool demo's.  I
> will
> only have my laptop running Red Hat 6.2 there to give the presentation
> on
> ... if someone wanted to bring a box to let people see other things
> running,
> that might be good.  Remember, these are business owners ... they may
> not
> find the latest compiler very interesting, but a demo of the latest
> release
> of Ximian Evolution might get their attention ... anyway ...
> 
> Any help anyone can offer would be great and it might be a good way to
> meet
> business owners who need knowledgeable, honest, qualified consultants
> ...
> 
> Please let me know ahead of time if you wish to help.
> 
> Thanks,
> jburke
> 
> -
> To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with
> "unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.
> 
I would like to take this opportuninty to thank Jim for jumping in and giving 
this presentation.  Janet and I started working this thing several months ago 
and when I found out I would be here in Germany ( actually this week I'm in 
Italy, but hey what'ta the hecka!) James volunteered to fill in.

Like he said in his message, if Linux has a chance of ever going mainstream it 
will be through promotions like these.  It is also a great opportunity to 
promote your business services if your into providing Linux Support.  But even 
if your not please do what you can to help jim out.

Thanks
and as we say in Germany: "all-feet-are-the-same."
-
To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with
"unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.