Hi Paul, I'm a new member of your LUG but we have strong ties to Ulster Publishing. I can probably get a direct recommendation to Dee Giordano to send someone to cover Arduino-paluzza if you can tell me more about it and what you think are the primary points of interest for the event.
Arduino is fascinating for all once they understand what it is and what it enables people to do. My friend Kate Hartman is writing a book for O'Reilly on embedded wearable applications for Arduino actually. IMHO, of all the comp sci platforms to emerge in the last decade Arduino has the most day-to-day real world obvious applicability in so many fascinating and whacky-Jetson's- future ways....hence I believe people's general fascination with it....once they understand what the heck it is. So if you can distill the idea of Arduino and Arduino-Paluzza a bit for pass off to Dee Giordano I suspect that it will be of interest to them enough to send a writer to cover your event. I'm in Istanbul at the moment but will return to my Kingston office on Monday to follow up on this correspondence. best regards, Kale ps: We are a small dev shop in Kingston. Around since 2000 or so. Primarily custom web apps and CMS leveraging open tech methodologies including RoR. We support and build our own LAMP hosting systems and virtualization environments. CENTos is our distro of choice. We use our own CDN accounts with Limelight and Internap to distribute audio and video well online. Some work: Custom RoR CMS for Natalie Merchant www.nataliemerchant.com New PC client + web API for Poughkeepsie startup: www.visionscape.com Joined MHVLUG to source good *nix admins and open minded devs looking to do cool work locally. ------------------------------------------------------------ Kale Kaposhilin Director of Operations Evolving Media Network 721 Broadway Suite 200 Kingston, NY 12401 O. 845.338.3220 x-101 M. 914.388.4480 F. 845.853.1083 On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Paul Chauvet wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to drum up some publicity for the LUG, hopefully leading to a > story in one of the local newspapers (Poughkeepsie Journal especially, but > the Kingston Freeman and Middletown Times Herald Record, and one or more of > the Ulster Publishing papers (New Paltz Times, Kingston Times, etc.). > > To help facilitate that, I'm trying to get some information to them that > might make next month's "Arduino-paluzza" an attractive meeting for them to > visit. Would anyone care to share with me any projects that they plan on > bringing to the July meeting (by Monday if at all possible). Aside from the > press coverage, I want to use some of these on flyers I'm going to be > posting/mailing on Monday. > > > P.S. Are there any weeklies that publish in/around Poughkeepsie (something > equivalent to the New Paltz or Kingston times)? > > - Paul > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza > Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting > Sep 7 - Thing-o-Matic _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting Sep 7 - Thing-o-Matic
