<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I also have to agree with a greater interest in embedded items and would be interested in such things.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Alex Samide</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> YES NOPE9 <yes@nope9.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:21 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue] Xorg presentation in the fall<br></font><br>
MJH<br>I am more interested in embedded FLOSS as well.<br>I volunteer to be one of your myrmidons.<br>I would like to expand the charter of CLUE to engulf FLOSS / POSH.<br>( sounds good ==> BeagleBoard, Arduino, Atmel (AVR), Angstrom,<br>Yocto, Linaro, kernel dudes, compiler dudes and the Crosstool-NG dude,<br>Buildroot and Das U-Boot, etc. )<br><br>Does Denver/Boulder/COSprings/FtCollins have enough geeks ?????<br><br>99guspuppet<br><br><br>> On May 17, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:<br>> <br>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:32 -0600, Matt Dew wrote:<br>>> Mike Bean brought up a really good point a while back. Why are there no <br>>> open source conferences in Denver? Apparently no one is interested <br>>> enough to make it happen. Well, consider this my attempt at helping to <br>>> make Denver a geek hub that would welcome a linux/OSS conference.<br>> <br>> Exactly my sentiment
back in '99-2000 when I ran CLIQ. However, it was<br>> more work than I could handle (the second year I ran it from Houston,<br>> after I moved there - I'm back in the Springs now). <br>> <br>> I've said in the past I'm willing to organize it again. But it takes a<br>> dedicated group to get it done. One or two guys alone would be severely<br>> overworked. You have to do a bit of foot work (or phone work) to drum<br>> up the sponsors so that individual entrance fees are kept low enough to<br>> entice the entire Mountain region, not to mention pulling in West<br>> coasters and the Midwest. And finding affordable space may be a problem<br>> these days - CLIQ was at the Marriott Tech Center and 8x10 booths were<br>> something like $400. Entrance fees were about $40, if I remember<br>> correctly. But we managed to get some good speakers. Maddog was here.<br>> So was
Rasmus Lerdorf. I'm pretty sure BDale Garbee (ex-Debian honcho)<br>> was here. Didn't Linus come? Someone with better memory than me would<br>> have to remind me. I gave a GIMP talk. Sean did one for Python I<br>> think. Anyway, they were pretty good conferences. Just a looooot of<br>> work.<br>> <br>> FYI - I'm more interested in embedded stuff now. So I'd be more<br>> interested in bringing in BeagleBoard, Arduino, Atmel (AVR), Angstrom,<br>> Yocto, Linaro, kernel dudes, compiler dudes and the Crosstool-NG dude,<br>> Buildroot and Das U-Boot, etc. I just don't think there is a minimum<br>> level of interest to support such a conference here. I'd like to be<br>> proven wrong, however.<br>> <br>> If you do want to try this I recommend collaborating with the leaders of<br>> BLUG, CSOpenSource, NCLUG and any others you can round up. Build on<br>>
people who have already shown an existing sense of responsibility to<br>> follow through. <br>> -- <br>> Michael J. Hammel <<a ymailto="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org" href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</a>><br>> <br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>