[CLUE-Admin] August Special Guest

[Lynn Danielson]

Jeffery C. Cann wrote:
> Scott Trathen wrote:
> > Jon "Maddog" Hall - President of Linux International (www.li.org) will more
> > than likely be in Denver the evening of 8/20, and I was wondering if your
> > group had interest in pulling together a meeting that he could speak at? 
> > Please let me know your thoughts, and I am offering the same to the Boulder
> > LUG
 >
 > I think this is a great idea -- maybe a special CLUE meeting?

To put it mildly, I think it would be a shame if we don't make this
happen.

A few of people have piped up and said, "I'll be there," but the
question is definitely where.  I think a good solution might be to
pay for a hotel conference/meeting room that could easily hold 100
people.  I'm thinking a location North of downtown Denver might be
best, because it would be more central to CLUE, BLUG and NCLUG.
We should either invite the other LUGs or get involved with them in
planning this together.  Presumably Chris Riddoch, president of
BLUG, has already been notified about this, so it would make sense
to contact him first concerning what we want to do.

If we were willing to risk some of our projector funds, we could use
this as a fund raising event.  Charge attendees a door fee such that
if fifty people show up we sould recoup our funds and if more show up
the additional money would go into the projector fund.  Of course, if
we're charging attendees and not paying Mad Dog, we'd need to OK this
with him.  Jeff, are you willing to consider this?

Alternatively we could beg for some sponsorship.  Tummy.com, Techangle,
and Softpro might be willing to make a contribution if we asked them
and promised to give them some recognition.  It wouldn't hurt to ask
IBM and HP either.  Compaq (now HP) has recently been claiming credit
for the Linux Alpha port, so they should be happy to promote an event
with Mad Dog, right?  I believe the president of NCLUG works for HP
and helped garner their sponsorship of the CLIQ.

So, the next big question is how likely is "more than likely"?
We don't want to go ahead with paying for a confernce room if
Mad Dog isn't going to show up.  If we start checking with hotels
about room availability, we should discuss down payments and
cancellation charges.

Lynn