Fw: [GLLUG] Commerical Presentations

[Sean O'Malley]

I am not opposed either for the same reasons Mr. Grant stated.

I will add I think they should be limited in some way, to maybe one a
month. Even if you are not interested in the technology. It is nice to see
how other people are attacking the same problems and be aware of other
solutions when you develope/implement your own.

The rest of this will probably come out at the board meeting.
I see definately three directions the club has the hobbyist,
professional outreach, and activist/education/social.

And what I kind of see us doing which I think is good. Is having
consistantly one night a month dedicated to each of these.
week 1 is education
week 2 is general business/social
week 3 is professional/enterprise
week 4 is hobbyist.

(i am not sure i have the weeks lined up quite right.. but that is the
jist of it.)

I do see commercial presentations in week 3 as being a viable
presentation.  This doesn't preclude any crossover discussions that may
exist at the meetings or the topics, but more addresses the general focus
of the meetings. (I would consider temperature, weather monitoring stuff
for a house as hobbyist but machine room temperature is important too.)

If I am a hobbyist I am more likely to go to week 4. In a way, it could
be viewed as a way to break up the club. But I think it is more so people
can schedule week x for their month in their planner. Ideally everyone
comes to all the meetings, but that gets into making it more of a
professional/social organization. It is beyod my ability to fold this
discussion under this topic though. =)

Sean

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, G Grant wrote:

> I have experienced that most have been informational in one-way or another. Not always that it will make you want their product, but many times they are a trigger for an idea or solution to a problem you are having in your environment. It would also be a good chance for some small and medium sized companies to see what solutions are available to them as they grow and need to look at new infrastructure to support larger demand, or for consolidation efforts. Most of the technology and procedural efforts I use in my small company are the result of my experience in working for the Fortune 500. With the benefit of open source versus proprietary infrastructure applications of course.
>
> Short answer, I would not be opposed to this idea.
>
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> >  Hello Everyone,
> >
> >        Members of the Board of Directors were curious to know, so I am sending
> >        this out as a formal topic that requires discussion, followed by a vote.
> >
> >        What do you all, the GLLUG community, think of allowing commerical
> >        presentations.  For those who don't quite get my question, how would you
> >        feel if IBM came and gave a sales presentation on blade servers?
> >
> >        Let the conversation begin...
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