[clue-talk] Sales presentations at meetings (was Re: Fwd: Cyber Monday 3 Day Sale - Get Up to 50% Off)

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 07:39 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dennis J Perkins
> <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> > If salespeople can provide information that people want to hear, then I
> > don't have a problem.  But how do we decide what is acceptable?  Ask the
> > group if they would like to have salespeople come in and talk about
> > something?
> >
> 
> In theory, you would only need to ask those who actually attend
> presentations! We've had quite a bit of interest for virtualization
> (-Vmware included), and that is certainly dominated at the moment by
> non-free (in every sense) software. I'm a middle of the road person.
> Any reasonably interesting technical presentation is worth my time.
> 


After reading the comments, my opinion is that we want a technical talk.
If a salesman can do a reasonable job, then he can give the talk.  
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