[Cialug] Installfest thought

[Theron Conrey]

I concur wholeheartedly. 

Chris Hilton wrote:

>Maybe it's best to present both sides.  Ignoring economic benefits seems
>a bit well religious to me :).  Someone could talk about the Free side
>of Free Software, and someone else could talk about the economic
>benefits of Open development in Open Source (it's partially about choice
>right ;)).
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>Just my $.02.  You will hear critics, I think, if you only present one
>or the other.  
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>It'd probably also be a good idea to cover some more technical aspects
>(glazing over them with "lay" words) as well.  Things like open
>standards verse proprietary standards.  Maybe this is getting too big?
>But their seems to be a laundry list of arguments for Free Software and
>Open standards and they go together. 
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>And now I'm gonna suggest a short history, but I think that was
>suggested in the original  suggestion.
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>On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 01:22 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
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>>Chris Hilton wrote:
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>>>I think Raymond's views on the matter will work better at the science
>>>center.  RMS is far too preachy, we need talk about the economics.  Talk
>>>about things like the percentages of code that's actually written to
>>>white-box sell (Raymond says 5%).
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>>>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:39 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
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>>>>cialug at cialug.org wrote:
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>>>>>>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
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>>>>>>>Anyone done any teaching or a similar presentation who could do it?
>>>>>>>Before I called the Science Center I would want to have a presentation
>>>>>>>topic
>>>>>>>and presenter (no me) to offer up.
>>>>>>>I think having a presentation period during the Install Fest no matter
>>>>>>>where
>>>>>>>we do it is a good idea. May make it more interesting.
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>>>>>>I would be happy to do one.
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>>>>>We could use the new Wiki to pull it together as a group.
>>>>>We need a topic.
>>>>>I suggest either "History of Open Source" or "History of Linux".
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>>>>If we are going to do this a good topic that is relavent to people there 
>>>>will be what is "Free Software" and what does it do for me.  I'm no RMS 
>>>>nor would I ever want to claim to be, however it's important I believe 
>>>>that we address this from not only a Linux angle, but a free software 
>>>>one as well.
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>>I completly disagree.  This is a hot enough topic however that it need 
>>to be discussed at the meeting IMO.
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