[infrastructure] [Fwd: Re: Ohio Linuxfest]

[Catherine Devlin]

Hi Beth, Hi Elizabeth,

I got a little confused by the stream of conversation - who's asking whom
for what.  Is there something that the Ohio Python community can do to help
out, er, OLF or OSFA or humankind in general?

Thanks!

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Due to other commitments there's nothing I can personally do for Ohio
> Linuxfest, but there is a *very* active regional Python group in Ohio (I
> have Cc'd their star organizer (who is an Oracle database administrator
> in real life) as she may well be able to sucker some gullible idiots
> into giving up their valuable free time to promoting the open source ethic.
>
> Maybe one day suckering gullible idiots will be a valid career path (you
> can tell I'm a geek not a marketer at heart, can't you? ;-)
>
> regards
>  Steve
>
> PS: How many people on this list (like me) follow an RSS feed of Seth
> Godin's blog?
>
> Elizabeth Ziph wrote:
> > Response from Ohio Linux fest.  We can discuss this next Tuesday.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:     Re: Ohio Linuxfest
> > Date:     Wed, 19 May 2010 23:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
> > From:     Beth Lynn Eicher <bethlynn at ohiolinux.org>
> > To:     elizabeth at linuxbox.com
> > CC:     sponsors at ohiollinux.org.ohiolinux.org
> > References:     <4BD760E1.70306 at linuxbox.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Elizabeth,
> >
> > As a government contractor for a day job, I love the idea of Open Source
> > for America. Unfortunately I can't speak in support of it publicly due to
> > public utterance issues.
> >
> > It would be cool if the Ohio LinuxFest could join. Would a 501c(3)
> > non-profit be allowed? I know there are lobbying restrictions with our
> > type of organization. On the other hand, we are a corporation who is
> > interested in encouraging government to consider open source who does
> > business in a high population state capital.
> >
> > Regardless, I would love it if Open Source For America could be involved
> > in the Ohio LinuxFest. It would make an excellent Open Source Solutions
> > Stage topic. I would count the Open Source For America as a dotorg for
> > exhibiting purposes.
> >
> > I am unclear on what kind of demographics you need. We see folks from as
> > far west as Illinos, as far north as Ontario, as far North-East as
> Boston,
> > as far South as the Triangle NC area, as far SouthWest as Kansus.Nearly
> > half of the US population is in a 500 mile radius.
> > http://www.clearchanneloutdoor.com/markets/columbus.htm
> >
> > As far as LinuxBox goes, we would love to have you back.
> >
> > By the way... We really missed the openAFS crowd last year. Do you think
> > this project would be interested in doing a hackathon again?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Beth Lynn Eicher
> >
> >> Hi Beth Lynn,
> >>
> >> How are you?
> >>
> >> As a member of the Open Source for America Technical Steering group I
> >> have been tasked with getting a sense of the geographical areas
> >> attending the OLF which i found on the attendee map
> >> http://www.ohiolinux.org/map.html and more importantly number of folks
> >> attending the show by location.  Is this something you can supply me?
> >>
> >> The group is trying to match the list with its membership so that OSFA
> >> members that are within a certain radius of the  expo will be notified
> >> that OSFA will be at the Expo.   Of course Linux Box will be there again
> >> this year - one way to celebrate my birthday - September 10th :-)
> >>
> >> Thanks a bunch
> >>
> >> elizabeth ziph
> >>
> >>
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