From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 18:22:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E3414DA3 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kalmadg@banet.net) Received: from stegosaurus (slip129-37-122-103.mo.us.ibm.net [129.37.122.103]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA12272; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:22:38 GMT Message-ID: <37293E22.41C67EA6@banet.net> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:22:42 -0400 From: James Kalmadge X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kim J. Brand" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd/linux meeting References: <3.0.1.32.19990428070421.007c4510@192.168.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kim, I don't like to rain on your parade but after 20+ years in computers my experience has been that demos; even well-planned, pre-programmed and tested demos; have a way of discovering new corollaries to Murphey's Law just when there is an audience to witness them. You might want to have a system set up and then show some other fascinating process such as a compile of a port which can be demonstated. You can try it in advance to be sure it will work. (And even have a backup copy squirreled away somewhere in case the worst befalls you.) Good Luck with it! :} James Kim J. Brand wrote: > > i've been asked to make a presentation to about 30-40 technology oriented > business leaders on my experience using FreeBSD, Linux and the open source > movement generally. an article featuring a mail/print/file server > application i developed for a local grade school was printed last week in > the business section of the Indianapolis Star. > > the meeting will be held in Indianapolis May 19th. my background is > technical, but i'm not VERY technical about FreeBSD's > potential/applications/etc. i'd like some help if someone can be here on > the 19th. > > i have a few ideas for an interesting presentation. like: while i'm giving > a backgrounder on where open source came from, who's using it, why, > etc...another person is installing it on a system just to show how easy it > is to get started. by the time my remarks are finished, the system is up > and running and maybe even doing something useful. i could supply the system. > > what do you think? please let me know. > > kim brand > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message