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Re: UpComing COMPUTAX



In message <1667F49D9@hagiga.jct.ac.il> you write:
|Hi! The idea seems to be very interestion, BUT (there are also BUTs)
|1) What for (besides of announcing Linux to people)?

I'd think a good reason would be that as users of Linux we should have
interest in having our community as big as possible so more services
will be provided (more places will import CD's for instance, maybe
more effort will be put into Hebrew support, more people to provide
money for activities, etc...)

|2) Where we will get all the hardware (I saw "netware") you want to bring 
|   netware server there?

People seem to valunteer to provide both money and time.  I myself
don't have the hardware at all (the closest thing I own is an HP-48GX
graphics calculator :) and COMPUTAX falls right on what I expect to be
my hardest test this year.

BUT!  I *will* donate money for such an effort.  If enough people will
do so (I'm thinkinkg about 100 shekels or so for myself) then maybe we
can get this off the ground.

I wouldn't like to piggy-back on others both because I'd expect the
space "donated" to be too small to impress anyone and because I don't
think the chances to find a donator are big.

>From experiences reported over the net and in the Linux Journal about
such happenings (huge conferences in the Silicon Valley, Washington,
Europe(?)  and other places) I'd give such a booth a chance to be a
histeric success, especially if you make the right noise to be reported
about in the media.

Cheers,

--Amos

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