Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] Want to present at LINUXWORLD NY/2002?]

["zeruch [Joseph Estevao Arruda]" <z@valinux.com>]

My primary point was that LWCE is industry-centric, not community (with
the possible exception of the .org pavillion, which really is a result
of lobbying by entities like OSDN and LI) and so if you are going to do
an .edu presentation, you should at least try to cater somewhat to the
audience at hand. Otherwise, your only options are OLS and ALS (which
are both great shows -I actually enjoy them more- but have a different
bent).

There are plenty of Universities athat do not have a POSIX focus,
especially after years of MS banging at their doors with 'freebies' and
'deals'.  Reversing that trend is (IMHO) a good task to have for an LWCE
like show - and being able to do applicable examples to the business
community certianly does not hurt.

Pick the battle, pick the venue, state your case.  The rest is a free
t-shirt ;)

z

Michael Viron wrote:
> 
> >Linux/Unix is quite ingraned at the University level, many people expect
> >to see it, etc.  Not many people know about the use, benifits and cost
> >savings of it in the K-12 level.  I would even venture to say that most of
> >the people involved in SEUl/edu are concerned about the K12 level, and
> >have a feeling that the university level is handling itself.
> 
> I would have to disagree on this.  There are some universities where the
> only *nix machines are operated almost entirely out of the Computer Science
> Department, which means most people that want to learn about *nix don't
> have the choice.  At the University of West Florida, for example, until the
> last few years or so, the web, mail, and ftp servers were all run on linux
> boxes--which have since been switched to NT / 2000.  Only two organizations
> on campus even run *nix servers and workstations anymore--The Computer
> Science department, which has a lab of unix workstations and a departmental
> server run under solaris 8, and the Web Spinners group which runs a
> Mandrake Linux server.
> 
> Just my .02,
> 
> Michael

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