[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [NTLUG:Leaders] How was ITEC?

[Chris Cox]

I'm going to go ahead and post this to discuss...I think everyone
is probably curious (changed to subject line too).

greenglow484 at juno.com wrote:
> 
> So.............................
> 
> How did ITEC go?  I didn't make it there, myself.  I did not see, in the
> Dall Morn News, any reports of fights, fisticuffs,
> disturbances;............so, I presume the Micro$haft people -- NTLUG's
> neighbors -- were on their best behavior (Admittedly, that's not saying
> much;  legal violations seem to be in vogue with that band of anarchic
> violators.)  What happened?

Went really well.  Lots of volunteers.  Lots of questions. Lots of
interest in Linux, Open Source and NTLUG.  The booth looked great...very
professional.  Article reprints did well.  Also had handouts on Linux
(copied from LI) and an NTLUG flyer.

Special thanks to:
Stephen Klein (demo machine)
Stuart Yarus 
J. Jentink
Doug Scott
Allen Wharton (mover and shaker!)
James Skidmore
Mark Schwartz
Jason Guillory
Dennis Rice
Bill Knight
Greg Platt (demo machine from VA)
Paul Jensen
and...everyone else who helped out that's not on this list!!



>  How'd it go?  Did you have any CD-ROMs left
> over?

We pretty much gave them all out!!

>  Did the Corel people show up (or were they all at home, working on
> their resumes?)

They were there and in high spirits.  They donated a copy of 
WP 2000 for us to give away.

>  Did you have any Micro$haft people offer to tell you why
> the so-called "Digital Dashboard" was better than GNOME or KDE?

Though a "big" sponsor, they were very silent....VERY silent.
I don't think they generated much traffic the entire show.

>  Have we
> achieved world domination_yet_?

Real soon.