[Cialug] Installfest thought

[Theron Conrey]

Chris Hilton wrote:

>I think Raymond's views on the matter will work better at the science
>center.  RMS is far too preachy, we need talk about the economics.  Talk
>about things like the percentages of code that's actually written to
>white-box sell (Raymond says 5%).
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>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:39 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
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>>cialug at cialug.org wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
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>>>>>Anyone done any teaching or a similar presentation who could do it?
>>>>>Before I called the Science Center I would want to have a presentation
>>>>>topic
>>>>>and presenter (no me) to offer up.
>>>>>I think having a presentation period during the Install Fest no matter
>>>>>where
>>>>>we do it is a good idea. May make it more interesting.
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>>>>I would be happy to do one.
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>>>We could use the new Wiki to pull it together as a group.
>>>We need a topic.
>>>I suggest either "History of Open Source" or "History of Linux".
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>>If we are going to do this a good topic that is relavent to people there 
>>will be what is "Free Software" and what does it do for me.  I'm no RMS 
>>nor would I ever want to claim to be, however it's important I believe 
>>that we address this from not only a Linux angle, but a free software 
>>one as well.
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I completly disagree.  This is a hot enough topic however that it need 
to be discussed at the meeting IMO.