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

[JEFF at GERHARDT.ORG]

Kevin 

Respectfully I think you are wrong.  Multi-threading is a very economical 
way of gathering people to an event. 

Harriss writes: 

> On 8/23/07, JEFF at gerhardt.org <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.
> 
> I agree that we want to diversify the conference but I don't
> necessarily think it should be a big hook just have some interesting
> talks on various topics.  For example: multimedia on linux, gaming on
> linux and various distros would be some good topics.  I think
> diversification can be done by having various talks not by smashing 2
> conferences together. 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> We are planning on having booths and if we do have booths we would
> allow local lugs to have booths and they would be free to give talks
> at the conference.  I don't think a wine based gaming lan would be
> that good of an idea since it would require people to bring their own
> machines and plus people would be leaving mid-match to go to talks. 
> 
> 
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