Interested! Will sponsor! -- Re: [LUNI] Re: [ChicagoLinux] Chicago Free and Open Source Conference

[JEFF at GERHARDT.ORG]

A suggestion. 

This has worked well in other areas of the country.  I suggest that if you 
do not want your conference to be one where people are preaching to the 
choir, that you establish a strong secodary hook to the event.  The obvious 
is gaming. 

A half Linux half Gaming Con has worked well all over the US.  It would draw 
in people from other "con" genre as well. 

It would also provide the LUGS across Chicago opportunity to share by 
setting up a wine based gaming lan.  Starcraft is having a huge resurgence 
now that the new version has been announced for 08 or 09 and is a game that 
can be played fairly with radically disparaging systems.  Legal licenses can 
be obtained free or near free. 

D. Wade writes: 

> 1) I am VERY interested.
> 2) Our company might be willing to sponsor, given some website linkage :) 
> 
> --Derek W. 
> 
> James Ruffer wrote:
>> I am up for this and would be willing to donate some money if we can
>> get a certain amount of sponsors. 
>> 
>> On 7/31/07, Kevin Harriss <special.kevin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey all, 
>>> 
>>> I interested in setting up a Free and Open Source conference in Chicago.
>>> This conference is to focus more on the desktop/enthusiast not the
>>> business side of Free and Open Source software.  If you would be
>>> interested helping out our sharing ideas please join us in our irc
>>> channel #chicon on freenode.  Also if you would be interested in a
>>> conference like just please reply saying that you are interested.  This
>>> will help us gage the interest.  I am really hoping to show everyone
>>> that the Midwest and more specifically Chicago is a good city for
>>> conferences and Free and Open Source Software, this can be done since we
>>> are hosting PyCon and Flourish. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks, 
>>> 
>>>      I. Kevin Harriss 
>>> 
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