[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Demo Day

[TJ Bell]

"Carter B. Bennett" wrote:

> >
> TJ Bell,
> Pissing people off is the last thing I wanted to do. I made the first
> post offering the Stripling & Cox location sometime the first of
> last week.
> 
> The first posting was almost completely ignored, although there
> was a lot of talk about a Best Buy location. I thought no one cared
> about a dept. store location next to Best Buy, and I have to admit
> it seems like a better fit to me to. But I guess that fell through, so I
> waited a couple of days and posted another. The response I got
> was laughable, and as of tonight the S&C location has been pulled
> from me as well.

I know how you feel about it being pulled from you...Best Buy was pulled
from me. (After teasing me for two weeks saying "i think so, maybe - I
have to check with corporate")

> To answer your question:
> >Am I the only one who sees something _WRONG_ here??
> The answer is no, there is something_WRONG_here, but
> it has nothing to do with 2 days of notice. I thought that the
> NTLUG would offer to get us some give away CD's, T Shirts, and
> pamphlets, or something.

I wasn't referring to the 2 days notice, I realized that after I sent it
that it sounded that way...what I was referring to was the trend of the
entire Linux Demo Day project, and also to the general attitude I
percieved - "'Someone' should do this, 'someone' should do that", then a
_few_ people doing something only to have the project ignored again.

> But I AM NOT BLAMING the failure of this thing solely on them,
> but except for the three people that have stepped up in the last two
> days (and Brian Finley with VA Research who offered to get me
> one and maybe two systems to use) NO ONE HAS SHOWED
> ANY INTEREST at all.
> 
> I'm sorry you felt I wasn't being fair with the amount of notice given
> but, after going to bat for Demo Day with the GM of S&C to get
> clearance and then selling it to the store manager at North Hills Mall,
> I'm the one left with egg on his face. The bottom line is, no one
> asked me to do it, I brought this on myself, I'm not mad at anyone
> I guess I'm just a little disappointed.

As am I.

> As a friend of mine would say, I guess it just wasn't meant to be.
> Maybe next year. Linux is still the greatest OS in the world, and
> NTLUG is still the best.
> GOD Bless everyone. We tried.

That all depends on who you are calling "we"

> Carter B. Bennett
> Little House Computer Services
> http://www.fastlane.net/~lhcs
> 
> You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but in the end when it's
> all over, all you really have are two dead birds, and your short one stone.
> Hummmmmm

I final note and then I'll shut up:  I would like to thank each and
every person who has attempted to find a location for this to happen.  I
would also like to thank those who were willing to tear down their
machines and take it over there as well as those who spoke with companys
such as VA Reasearch about getting computers from them.  I don't know
who all tried, but my hat's off to ya if you did!  Linux Demo Day didn't
happen this year, but maybe we can get our act together for next year. 
Oh, and the 24hr game can happen at any time...there's no date for that
one - email Steve Baker (sjbaker1 at airmail.net) if you wanna do it!! 
PLEASE!!

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