On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Seth Cohn wrote:
>
> > > Loki: a DEMO of the game. Wish they'd done more. A full copy
> > > would have gone a long way.
> >
> > Well, no one's going to play a full game at LDD, are they? :-> It's
> >enough to demonstrate the capabilities, and as a corporation they're just
> >getting started.
>
> Agreed, but sending the demo and one full copy would have been nicer.
> One copy of a network game makes you want to buy more... Giving away
> a copy of a game makes others lust for it, when they don't get it.
>
> > In general, I tend to agree that the corporate sponsors haven't done
> >everything they could conceivably do for LDD, but I like to think that
> >they are evaluating the effectiveness of this sort of effort. After all,
> >this is the first time this sort of thing's been done. I think as long as
> >the demos go well, next time around will see a bit more commitment. While
> >many of these corporations have oodles of cash, as a whole Linux companies
> >aren't terribly large (yet) and need to optimize their efforts.
>
> I agree, to a point. Where is Redhat? They have $$$ to burn these days. :)
>
> Deepak listed these, does someone have email addresses for them?
> I'd like to drop each of them a line.... a LUG specific address would be
> best... Nothing nasty, just a simple email saying that Suse, Caldera,
> LinuxCare, LinuxCentral, Applix, and Loki had all sent things, and
> that time was running out if they wanted their named displayed and
> their products demoed.
I think that's going overboard. A better idea would be to publicly promote
and thank those who did help. Some, such as TurboLinux, kinda forgot about
it, but did help when asked (presuming something shows in my mailbox boon
:).
The deal with the sponsors was a bit of a clusterf*** this time around.
Too many lessons being learned :), not enough time. Next time around I
expect the LDD to run a bit more smoothly as far as outside organizations
such as sponsors and media go. Did TheLinuxShow or Linux.com get mentioned
for publicity they've provided?
Having the addresses for the sponsors a month before the event really
wasn't enough time. It takes quite a bit of effort to ramp up a mailing
effort like that.
Quite a few of these deserve metion just because of their ongoing support
of Linux, so we can forgive them if they missed one thing :).
If we really want sponsors we'll combine this with the Linuxbierwanderung
and get local micro breweries to sponsor the individual LUGs (Da koennten
die Deutschen schon was Unterstuetzung finden, gell?[1] ;-).
ciao,
der.hans
[1] The Germans could find some support that way, right? ;-)
> > VA Linux Systems
> > SGI
> > Penguin Computing
> > TurboLinux (?)
> > RedHat (?)
> > MacMillan
> > O'Reilley (?)
> > Sybase (?)
> > Oracle (?)
> > Linux Mall
> > Corel (?)
> > Linux Journal
> >
> > The ones with (?) next to them are ones that are listed as sponsors
> > but we haven't really heard from in a while. All of them have been sent
> > the address list, but not everyone has replied.
>
> Seth
>
>
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