Speakers for LDD in Boston

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

Does a raffle count as charging a fee?  It may be a pain in the ass to
gather funds and buy something mutually fun to win, keeping the extra $$$
for events, but it's a thought.

If I could get just ONE more quarter pounder, I'm sure I would win the
helicopter or the lear jet...

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Blake Parker wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:43:43 -0400
> From: Blake Parker <bparker at arcmail.com>
> To: 'Massimo Morin' <mmorin at schedsys.com>,
>     "Discuss (E-mail)" <discuss at Blu.Org>
> Subject: RE: Speakers for LDD in Boston
> 
> Yes, this is something we have discussed and I think we should do something
> like this. It would serve the purpose of generating some money for the
> group,
> providing a service to the Linux community, and giving the
> instructor/speaker
> experience that he/she could use on their resume. I would not be opposed to
> compensating the speaker to cover their transportation, meals, presentation
> material, or other legitimate expenses. This does bring up another issue
> with
> regard to BLU's tax status however I am working on resolving that. What we
> will need is a location to do things like this. By agreement with MIT we
> will
> not be able to use their facilities for events we charge a fee for. We may
> be
> able to use a training facility elsewhere but we need to find alternate
> places
> we can hold such events.
> 
> --Blake
> )B?
> Blake Parker
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux & UNIX
> mailto:bfp at blu.org
> http://www.blu.org
> )B?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Massimo Morin
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 10:08 AM
> To: bparker at arcmail.com; discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: Speakers for LDD in Boston
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 	I don't know if it is possible but why don't we do seminars or seminar
> cycles (2 or 3 dates each) on a certain topic (Installing Linux, using
> Gimp, Emacs, debugging tools, samba, apache, tcl/tk, scripting in
> general, etc etc etc): we send out mail and/or invitation to certain
> company/professionist that can be interested on that and we charge them
> a fee of partecipation???
> 
> In this way you have:
> 1)  people are incentivated to do the seminar (you are talking with
> someone that is REALLY interested on the topic)
> 2)  the speaker can "make its name" on the "worrking arena"
> 3)  enstablish contacts between the BLU and the "working world"
> 4)  if everything is reasonably good for a reasonable price people will
> start talking about us
> 5)  spread the Linux word
> 
> .. last bat not least you rise money even for the "teacher/speaker"
> 
> To every company/professionist that partecipate to these, you can invite
> them for free to the speech of, for example, Jeremy ;)
> 
> I will be very happy to contribute to this ;)
> 
> This is only an idea but...
> 
> Cheers
> 		Massimo
> 
> 
> Blake Parker wrote:
> >
> > This is one of the reasons we need to find a way to generate some money
> > for the group. We do not charge any membership fees and what we make on
> > an Installfest isn't enough to pay transportation expenses for speakers.
> > I'd like to have peoples ideas on what we can do to generate some money
> > the group can use for special purposes. Email discussion is a way to start
> > this process and at some point an informal meeting could be scheduled.
> >
> > --Blake
> >
> > Blake Parker
> > Associate Director
> > Boston Linux & UNIX
> > mailto:bfp at blu.org
> > http://www.blu.org
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> > Charles C. Bennett, Jr.
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:14 PM
> > To: discuss at Blu.Org
> > Subject: Speakers for LDD in Boston
> >
> > Hi All -
> >
> >    Here's the deal on the availability for Jeremy Allison the week of
> > LDD.  He's in Washington DC the preceding week.  If we're really
> interested
> > in hearing him, SGI expects us to pay his way.
> >
> >    Should we pass the hat and show him some fine Yankee hospitality or
> > would you rather we pass?
> >
> > ccb
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> > Subject: Re: Speakers for LDD in Boston
> > To: ccb at kukla.tiac.net (Charles C. Bennett Jr.)
> > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT)
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> > Bennett, Jr." at Aug 25, 99 03:07:03 pm
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> > howdy -
> >
> > jeremy's in DC til the 10th of september.  his itinerary up to
> > that point is paid for.  seems to me the incremental expense of
> > providing lodging for him for 2 or 3 days and a flight from DC
> > to boston and back are quite a deal.  if you can find the budget
> > to cover this additional expense i'm sure jeremy would love to
> > provide value-add.  if this isn't possible, we need him here.
> >
> > thanks -- cleo
> >
> > ps - piyush - could you call me?  3-2051.  thanks!
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Jeremy -
> > >
> > >    At this point in our Boston LUG (blu.org) sceduling we've
> > > identified three venues and have a verbal commit from one of them.
> > > The one that we have a verbal for is Softpro, mentioned in the last
> > > mail message.  I don't think the event at Softpro will come off any
> > > earlier than 9/13 although we might be able to push for the 12th.
> > >
> > >    As for accommodations, we're not SVLUG.  We have a large email
> > > readership and very small monthly meetings.  If SGI wants to foot the
> > > bill and write this off as part of it's sponsorship, that's cool.
> > > Otherwise I'll have to scratch around and see where we can put you :-).
> > >
> > >    On another note - you mention flying back from DC.  Do you know
> > > Greg Pryzby at NoVALUG?  I'm sure those guys would love to see you
> > > while you're in DC.  Drop him a line at pryzby at tux.org.
> > >
> > > ccb
> > >
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Charles C. Bennett, Jr.                               VA Linux Systems
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> > > US Northeast Region                           Sunnyvale, CA 94089
> > > +1 617 543-6513                                       +1 888-LINUX-4U
> > > ccb at valinux.com                                       www.valinux.com
> > >
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