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

[Samir Faci]

NVidia sponsors LAN Parties btw.. lil trinkets usually.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/sponsorship/frmsponsorship.asp

Write them ahead of time, they take forever to send you the stuff.

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Samir


On 8/23/07, Mark Stuart Burge <mark at msbrepairs.com> wrote:
> I second that, if there is something there to make the whole thing
> worthwhile.
>
> Might be worth getting some vendors involved and have some hardware on
> sale and being demonstrated (they can then add their advertising muscle
> to it)
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> Advertise to soho users and set up some areas where they can learn the
> benefits of linux on the desktop.
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> Set up the audio/video/multimedia for the conference completely on linux
> boxes (ubuntustudio) and allow that to become part of the display.
>
> Set up an ubuntuCE demo and then promote the event on moody radio
> (90.1FM) which will target families all over Chicago  who want a
> free/safe operating system and thus you will also promote it to church
> offices in the neighborhood who are a prime candidate for linux desktops.
>
> Get the promoters of 'One laptop per child'  http://olpc.com/   to get
> involved, as it ties in with the first large scale rollout of the olpc
> laptop in September.
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> JEFF at gerhardt.org wrote:
> > 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:
> >
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