[lug] Re: BLUG presence at the Computer and Technology Showcase

[Wayde Allen]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Wayde Allen wrote:

> 
> OK, several people mentioned that they "might" be able to give
> presentations at the Denver Computer Technology Showcase.  The names I
> have are:
> 
>    Robert L. Harris - "I may consider the Linux as a server actually, and
>                        that could work on the desktop also." 
> 
>    Ferdinand P. Schmid - "I would be willing to prepare a presentation
>                           with information on how our company is migrating
>                           to Linux. It was a difficult battle for me to
>                           fight with all the traditional arguments 
>                           (security, difficult to administer, ...)  but
>                           we now have all critical systems migrated to
>                           Linux."
> 
>    Alan Robertson - "I think I know someone who would speak on this latter
>                      topic, if he gets a laptop from SuSE, and gets his
>                      proverbial sh*t together on his home (now work)
>                      network ;-)" 
> 
>    George Sexton - "This is a follow up to our attempted conversation at
>                     the Dark Horse. I think a lot of people would be
>                     interested in MRTG which is an SNMP graph program.  It
>                     is primarily designed for monitoring network usage but
>                     it can also be used to monitor other SNMP variables.
>                     ... <snip> ... I use MRTG to monitor the bandwidth
>                     usage on the eth0 and eth1 interfaces. Describing the
>                     software and demonstrating the installation and
>                     configuration would probably take something on the
>                     order of an hour.  I would probably want to
>                     demonstrate using it to monitor CPU utilization as
>                     well. Anyhow, I think this is a nifty program that a
>                     lot of people would be interested in." 
> 
> We need to get the titles and abstracts for these talks to Tony Patton by
> the end of this week.  Please let me know if you are planning on doing
> this ASAP.

So far I have only received a title and abstract from Ferdinand.  I need
to call Tony Patton this morning to give him an update.  Are you other
guys still interested in giving a presentation?  The cut off date for the
call for papers is February 29th so we really need to get these in!


- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)