[TriLUG] Southeast LinuxFest

[Tim Jowers]

Or Linux Robotics. I haven't researched it but the price is right to start
using laptops to run your home robots. Should open an era of huge
innovation.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This is a great idea. How related is the open source conference already
> hosted in the Triangle each year?
>
> Would you drive 3 hours to Charlotte for the Fest? Fly to Atlanta? What
> would need to be offered to get you to go to it?
>
> I hosted the SC Tech Expo a few years ago and was very successful with
> getting companies to come but not successful with people despite TV,
> newspaper, online, email lists, and direct contacts.
>
> To be successful the Fest has to soul search really what the market wants.
>
> For me, I'm not available during the week probably but *might* make it on a
> Sat or Sun. I skipped the last several TriLUG presentations due to a new
> baby and have now moved too far away. Those are excellent so I'm not sure
> how much better a Linux Fest would be. I guess I'd have to believe there was
> something revolutionary going on. Maybe a new and better way to do UI's or
> some movement to start a hardware company to sell real, customized Linux
> laptops to supplant Winblows and Mac. Another idea would be a game platform.
> It would be possibel to make a "Rock Jam", "Dance Evolution" or any other
> platform as a Linux project/product. Linux already is the best server OS and
> among the best Desktop OS; so, that would not be too exciting for me
> personally.
>
> My $.02.
> TimJowers
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Douglas A. Whitfield <
> douglasawh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Scott G. Hall <ScottGHall at bellsouth.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone got any update information on this?  It is nice to see that
>> > TriLUG is a supporting LUG, but who is our local contact person?
>>
>>
>> Clearly I need more sleep and to keep my contacts in:
>>
>> 8/13/08 - Mark Spencer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Spencer>
>> confirms
>> he will attend barring conflicts. *This means we have a confirmed date of
>> 6/13/09*
>> 8/11/08 - We are now an official non-profit corporation in South Carolina!
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