[clue-adm] FW: Potential CLUE Speaker

[Young, Ed]

> Gentlemen, 
> 
> Please the message from Todd Gibson below carefully and give feedback on
> this list. 
> This person has offered to help us with a speaker tonight in place of
> Corel. 
> 
> Should we take him up on this or go with our off the cuff back up plan.
> 
> It is great that the community has grown to the point that we have options
> when something like this happens. 
> 
> Ed 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Todd A. Gibson [SMTP:tgibson at kaivo.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:11 AM
> To:	ed.young at echostar.com
> Subject:	Potential CLUE Speaker
> 
> Dear Ed,
>  
> My name is Todd Gibson, VP of Technology with a local Linux/Open Source
> company: Kaivo, Inc.
> 
> I am writing to offer the services of our CEO, Brian Cabral, as a
> fill-in speaker for tonight's meeting if you have not already found
> someone.
> 
> Kaivo is an outgrowth of a UNIX-focused education and training co.
> (called Information Foundation) which began educating business people on
> the advantages of open, customer-controlled computing environments
> (read: UNIX systems) in 1984.
> 
> Kaivo announced yesterday the opening of our Linux/Open Source  
> marketplace (www.kaivo.com) which is designed to allow vendors of
> Linux/Open Source software, hardware, and services to communicate with
> potential corporate end-users of their solutions.  You may have seen the
> write-up on the front page of the High Tech section of the Rocky
> Mountain News.
> 
> In any case, Brian has been speaking on these issues since 1985 and is
> conducting the lead-off talk in the Linux for Business track at
> LinuxFest in Kansas City next Wednesday.
> 
> His talk, "Why Linux", is designed to communicate the benefits of Open
> Source solutions to corporate end-users.  The talk is available under
> the Open Content license, therefore technical people who may not need to
> hear it for themselves (as in "you're preachin' to the choir") can see
> how Brian discusses the issues with CIO's and other corporate decision
> makers and then can use his slides as a basis for their own internal
> advocacy efforts.  (We conducted a series of focus groups with the
> Gartner Group in April, speaking with CIOs and IT decision-makers from
> businesses ranging in size from $10 million to $4 billion, and one of
> the most commonly requested items was a talk that could be used
> internally to "sell" the benefits of Linux/Open Source to higher-ups.)
> 
> Sorry for the long message.  If this offer is of interest, please let me
> know.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Todd A. Gibson
> VP Technology
> Kaivo, Inc.
> www.kaivo.com
> 
> "...open [source] code is a foundation to a free society."
>    --Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace