[ale] ALE NW meeting last night

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:35 pm, aaron wrote:
> Will confirm with Michael Hirsch, but I show the Central meeting as
> booked for April and May. We were loosely holding June open for the
> possibility of Oracle doing a Linux topical presentation... they
> contacted us with the offer through the admin list.

The twiki shows April as available.  Do you know something you haven't told 
me?  :-)

> A point, though, that given the potential for localized meetings and
> expanded attendance opportunities, it might be useful to coordinate
> presentations a bit. It may also make preparing a Linux presentation
> more attractive if one gets better mileage out of the effort through
> more people at different locations.

This does sound like a good idea.

Michael

> Perhaps a little discussion after the 13th meeting is in order.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 13:54, H. Bieber wrote:
> > Greg and Jeff... would you be interested in doing the same
> > presentation at the ALE at Emory meeting? Aaron can let you know what
> > slots are available, I would like to see it for the April Meeting
> > which is April 10th.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Harold
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> > To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:20:18 -0500
> > Subject: [ale] ALE NW meeting last night
> >
> > We had a packed house last night at the ALE NW meeting at KSU.  Many
> > thanks to Justin and Dow for getting the word out at the school.
> >
> > Thanks to Greg Canter and Jeff Hubbs for a superb tag team
> > presentation.
> >
> > Thanks again to Bob Toxen for providing pizza and sodas, although I
> > was not able to stick around and partake. :(
> >
> > We had somewhere around 90 folks attend the meeting, it was difficult
> > to get an exact head count as we had folks sitting on the floor and
> > lining the walls!  That was fantastic.  We're getting some good
> > support from the faculty members at KSU as well, not to mention Dow's
> > efforts.
> >
> > So, I'd like feedback from anyone who attended.  What did you like,
> > not like.
> >
> > Also, I had to leave early as my wife is out of town and had to
> > relieve my 'child care provider,' so I didn't get to stick around for
> > the pizza and dicussion.
> >
> > How did that all go?  Was the timing of the pizza arrival good or was
> > it an interuption?
> >
> > Thanks for all who attended.  I'm looking for suggestions for upcoming
> > presentations as well as folks who would like to give a presentation.
> >
> > One suggestion I received yesterday was that we should make a visual
> > comparison of software packages between Windows and Linux.  That is,
> > actually fire up a windows box and a Linux box and make a step by step
> > comparison of features and functionality.  I think this is a great
> > idea, but it would probably require a number of presenters to step up,
> > since I doubt there's anyone who knows everything about a full install
> > of any distro.
> >
> > Again, I'm looking for feedback, suggestions and presenters.
> >
> > Thanks to all who attended!
>
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