[clue-adm] RE: Potential CLUE Speaker

[Young, Ed]

Todd, 

Before you sent this out, another group from Techangle had responded that it
would show up and discuss many of the recent breakthroughs Linux /Open
source. It hadn't been  finalized, but we decided to go with this idea since
they were the first to respond, and have been involved and supporting the
club for a long time.

The feedback from the club officers is that we'd very much like to meet you
and learn a bit more about Kaivo. We've had a look at your web site, and we
are very interested in having you come and present to our group in a future
meeting. I'm the contact for presentation coordination, so please feel free
to schedule a meeting date and send me a presentation description for us to
review. 

I apologize if you've been to our meetings before and I don't recollect
meeting you.  I encourage you to come this evening to meet me and the group
and talk to us about future presentations. 

Good Luck, and thank you so much for being available on short notice. It's
nice to know that there's a large community out there willing to help. 

Ed Young


> -----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