Robert Collins wrote:
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:06, Bruce Badger wrote:The ideal would be a speaker from some rather conservative type company (e.g. bank, insurance company). An employee who was there while a project happened, but who could not be accused of being an evangelist, or a vendor with a vested interest. It would be good, though, if the speaker knows how to give an interesting presentation :-)
Does anyone know of an open source system deployment within Australia, that would be a potential source of a speaker?
The ideal would be finding someone who was on a project from evaluation through to deployment who could tell the tale. It would be even better if it were a happy tale.
Any ideas?
Depends on what 'system' you are looking for a speaker on. I could certainly put toghether a presentation on squid-in-a-commercial-setting. A probably a few different things (ie samba, mail-servers, IDS, mysql, ...) , if I put my mind to it.Could you be a little more specific on what you are trying to achieve with the presentation? (i.e. 'show my peers that it is possible for a business to take a thought out, risk-managing approach to a project, and still end up with an open-source tool/environment/package as part of the projects solution').
Stories like:
"How we replaced all our web-edge system with OSS"
"What benefits we saw in moving to a standards + OSS based mail solution"
would be good.
Does this help, Rob?
Thanks,
Bruce
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