[ale] ALS

[Paul D. Manno]

Folks,

For the record, there indeed is no ALS scheduled for 2002 at this time. It 
is not and never was an "Oakland-only" show.  After the disappointing ALS 
2001 held in Oakland (due to the generous sponsorship of the international 
USENIX Association), USENIX could not fiscally support another such event.

Vernard and I had drafted the discussion about what to do about ALS and it 
has been posted to this list and discussed at an ALE meeting.  To date, if 
we count the chirping crickets heard as affirmative, there were about 20 
who thought a small Fall ALS in Atlanta would be an "okay" thing.

As Chris has already said on this list, there was a general burn-out among 
the local champions of ALS and a small group of folks comprising the board 
of directors (cc'd on this message) and a few other stalwart individuals 
left to do something with the show.  It was felt we'd like to do something 
for the local community again.  However, a show for 20 folks just is not 
cost-effective.  Sufficient corporate sponsorships are *very* difficult to 
find.  There are probably alternatives ALS could do.

So, I invite open discussion on your choice of private mail, ALE's mailing 
list or the ALS board to help us choose ALS's best way to support the 
local community - what we're chartered to do.

-- Paul Manno

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Geoffrey wrote:

> keith frost wrote:
> > i'd found that. so do they only do oakland now?
> > i did not see a 2002 schedual for atlanta
> 
> V posted a note regarding an ALS in Atlanta a while back.  I don't think 
> it's set yet, as part of the issue was location.  I'm looking into the 
> possibility of having it hosted at either an AT&T location or possibly 
> KSU, although I've not contacted KSU at this time.   I figure AT&T might 
> be able to defray cost as there is quite a movement within the 
> corporation to leverage Linux at this time.
> 
> > 
> > --- Jim Popovitch <jimpop at rocketship.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>http://www.linuxshowcase.org/
> 
> 


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