[vox-outreach] Speaker possibility as GTC

[Jonathan Stickel]

Just last month, Edward Elliott gave a Linux in business talk for a Sac 
State club.  Would it be relevant for GTC?  If he is not able to give 
the talk, are his slides available?  It might be a starting point at least.

Jonathan


Trevor Lango wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs@sonic.net] 
>>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:30 PM
>>To: LUGOD Outreach
>>Subject: [vox-outreach] Speaker possibility as GTC
>>
>>
>>
>>GTC has a set of presentation topics they'd like exhibitors 
>>to present on. (I believe the deadline to suggest one's own 
>>topic has passed a few months
>>ago.)
>>
>>One of them is:
>>
>>  "The Business Case For and Against Open Source for Your Agency"
>>
>>
>>Which sounds perfect for LUGOD!
>>
>>Anyone interested in doing such a talk?  If so, let us know 
>>ASAP so we can tell the GTC coordinators!
> 
> 
> 
> I am willing, but just to be perfectly clear, this really isn't like our
> usual: "Linux is cool! You should use it!" ... now is it?  I imagine they
> are expecting something brewed up for the IT Administrator; a presentation
> that compares Open Source and Microsft on all levels (kind of like all those
> recent biased Microsoft-sponsored surveys regarding Microsoft vs. Linux
> deployment in enterprise environments?):
> 
> - costs (purchasing, maintaining, training, etc.)
> - licensing/ability to customize
> - ease of implementation/installation/setup
> - IT support staff training/ability to maintain
> - user training/ease of use
> - any other suggestions...? :)
> 
> And just another note: the title states for AND against Open Source... so to
> deliver a fair and equitable presentation, I would have to utter blaspehous
> words, words against (gasp!) open source...? ;-)
> 
> I am willing to commit to this in the absence of a more qualified speaker
> and upon confirmation of date and time.
> 
> 
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