[TriLUG] Lulu Heat

Michael Winslow Czeiszperger michael at czeiszperger.org
Sun Sep 29 15:49:07 EDT 2002


On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 11:44 AM, Mike Mueller wrote:

> By any chance was the JavaOne circus back in the days that ".com" 
> marketers
> would arrange planning meetings in Cancun, that Nortel stock was in 
> the $80
> range (now $0.45), and technology was a promising career? :-/  The Sun
> marketing group probably footed the bill for that show.
>

I don't think it was atypical. My point was only that those of us 
who've been to lots of conferences have different expectations for a 
for-profit outfit like Lulu. The JavaOne experience isn't much 
different than that put on by the big non-profits.

> I like the idea of a show put on by "cash-strapped user's group[s]". A
> combined linux/BSD installfest, wireless demo, video/sound demo, robo 
> wars,
> business-on-Linux, meat+/- cookout, live music event that raises funds 
> for a
> charity like computers for schools or West-Nile-free blood.

Me too.

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michael at czeiszperger dot org
Chapel Hill, NC




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