[ale] ITT Tech this Saturday?

[Aaron Ruscetta]

Glad you'll be attending Charles!  I'm out of town for the weekend or
I'd be joining you.  Pointed a prospect at the install fest while hanging
out at Twains for the Linux User Group In Decatur (LUCID) meeting
Wednesday.  A shorter, middle aged woman who may be arriving
with a crippled windiseased system and a computer literate daughter.

For tonight, I just got back from the Lanier Tech LUGNUTS road trip
with Michael Trausch a couple hours ago. Mike did a nice prex on
Ubuntu server (and I got educated about the Dash shell).

Unfortunately, the meeting was pretty sparsely attended. Don't know
what the mindset of the Lanier Tech students is or how they could
think that spreading windiseases is going to be viable IT career past
the next 5 years.  These days, failing to get extensive experience
with Linux as an IT student seems negligent.  Duping these people
into paying for windisease treatment training seems criminal.

Seems that the Lanier Tech Linux group is running into the same
walls to sharing IT Freedom with the world that ALE has been
trying to break through.  They have similar problems addressing
NooB / Uber Geek interest gulf as well.

Anyway...
We're trying to come up with a brilliant angle on a LUGNUTS install
fest or presentation for the April / May events that might attract a
broader range of  students or better pique the interests of the IT
group.  One idea proposes doing a project oriented install day
where we help students turn an old PC or laptom into a Linux
Media Server or other Linux appliance device, perhaps offering
3 or 4 choices.

If anyone has ideas they want to share on this topic, please put
them out there.  There is a big need for some fresh and innovative
approaches in our outreach to these other demographic groups.

Thanks!
peace
aaron










On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, is anyone else is going to the ITT Tech Linux Fest this Saturday?
>  I'll be happy to carry you or ride with you. I'm located just across
> the tracks from Prestigious Avondale Estates, a little less than 3
> miles East of Decatur.  Google maps has it about a 25 minute ride from
> my place to the venue. I'm currently thinking of staying all the way
> 09:00 to 17:00, but I'm somewhat open to suggestion re the morning
> part.  Aaron can vouch for my (mostly) good character.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On SATURDAY, FEB. 27th, from 9am to 5pm,
> we invite you to join us for
>
>  THE ALE SOURCE FREEDOM LINUX FEST
>
> being hosted at the _new_ ITT Tech facilities at:
> 485 Oak Place, Atlanta, GA 30349
>
> We invite everyone to promote this event where ever possible
> and appropriate!  A printable PDF poster is available at:
>  <http://ale.org/static_pages/ale_sourcefreedom-20100227.pdf>.
>
> Full details at <http://ale.org>
>