Hi Guys/Girls, Red Hat IPO and our project: Just saw this, we may want to gather our pennies. Red Hat is has filed for an IPO. This should be good press. Actually this may make our attendance go through the roof if it is timed right. And Red Hat generates as much press as E-Bay, Amazon did. But on to other things. Linux World Expo and Sponsors: I was looking at the list of sponsors at LinuxWorld Expo's site and found that. There are a ton of companies listed. So I may start working off of their list. That may be almost a complete list of companies/groups we would want to contact. No news on the Open Source Booths on their site. But the LUG link was dead also. Diary: I have learned quite a bit about this stuff in only the 2 weeks that I have been doing it. So I decided to keep a diary. Maybe we should keep one for the whole project as well? My Take on the sponsors: I think we are doing alright as far as getting sponsors. I am sure that now that we have 3 big names others will follow suit and some even may begin contacting us. When LI and the other distros come on then interest will probably soar. Plus I haven't gotten a press release out to like ZD and that whole group of the media. So I would expect that we should be able to make my July 1 timeframe for sponsors. Company List: I have as of right now these companies as participating: VA Linux Systems Penguin Computing Red Hat SOftware - Agreed to provide a distribution for every LUG participating. Applix (?) Not Confirmed but would like to participate. WiredGlobal I have it on good authority that: Linux International Caldera - SuSE - Currently moving offices Star Division - Re-organizing their infrastructure. Companies still waiting on: Corel - Need to contact by phone Puffin Group Linuxberg Oracle - Need to contact by phone Atipa Open Source Groups that have been contacted: Debian Next group to contact: O'Reilly The Linux Store Computer Associates LinuxCare Cygnus Solutions Pacific HiTech SendMail Linux Journal Linux Magazine Performance Computing Jim Ray --- This message was automatically sent by the Linux Demo Days mailing list To remove yourself from this list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the "unsubcribe" in your message body.
