[Cialug] Installfest thought

[Chris Hilton]

Maybe it's best to present both sides.  Ignoring economic benefits seems
a bit well religious to me :).  Someone could talk about the Free side
of Free Software, and someone else could talk about the economic
benefits of Open development in Open Source (it's partially about choice
right ;)).

Just my $.02.  You will hear critics, I think, if you only present one
or the other.  

It'd probably also be a good idea to cover some more technical aspects
(glazing over them with "lay" words) as well.  Things like open
standards verse proprietary standards.  Maybe this is getting too big?
But their seems to be a laundry list of arguments for Free Software and
Open standards and they go together. 

And now I'm gonna suggest a short history, but I think that was
suggested in the original  suggestion.

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 01:22 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
> 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%).
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:39 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>cialug at cialug.org wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>I would be happy to do one.
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>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".
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>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.
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