[GRLUG] Future Meeting Idea

[John Harig]

I'll second that . . . without a physical meeting you might as well have IRC meetings.  I've been thinking of ways of maybe volunteering our large office for meetings, we have plenty of space and we are right next to steelcase on 44th.  


--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Joseph Harnish <josephharnish at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joseph Harnish <josephharnish at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRLUG] Future Meeting Idea
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 9:55 AM
> All,
> 
> I have been mulling over an idea for an "Open
> House" type meeting that we
> should through together.  With the current economic times I
> think we should
> have a few hour get together where we can have 15 minute
> presentations of
> Linux based OpenSource solutions for products companies are
> spending way too
> much money on.  I think it would be really awesome of our
> group to have
> different people do the 15 minute presentations.
> 
> Here are some ideas for presentations:
> 
> OpenOffice  (http://openoffice.org)
> OrangeHRM (http://www.orangehrm.com/)
> DimDim (http://www.dimdim.com/)
> JasperReports (
> http://jasperforge.org/plugins/project/project_home.php?group_id=102)
> OCSInventory (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/)
> LAMP (Over view of Linux, Apache, MySQL and Pick a
> Programming Lang :)
> Hylafax (http://www.hylafax.org)
> Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org/)
> OpenDias (http://essentialcollections.co.uk/openDIAS/)
> Joomla (http://www.joomla.org)
> 
> With a little bit of Gurilla Marketing I think we could
> drive a huge number
> of IT folks from shops that maybe affraid of
> Linux/OpenSource but are even
> more affraid of their shop closing their doors because they
> can't afford the
> costs of SA's with Microsoft and other large
> organizations
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --Joe
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