[plug] ECAWA presentation Friday (cue evil music) the 13th of September

[Leon Brooks]

Hokay, I finally drummed some confirmations out of ECAWA!

I/we will be on from 11:45 to 12:30 on Friday the 13th of September at The 
Atrium, Mandurah, plus we have 15 minutes before and after that to argue with 
the next/previous speaker's crew about setting up and knocking down.

We can probably leave the gear in the room to be toyed with over lunch, and/or 
move it out into a foyer area outside the room, but there will be no security 
guarantees. A simple chain around the table structure and a padlock per 
anchor and machine would be enough if this is a concern; mouse/keyboard/video 
cables run through the padlock loop is generally enough to secure those.

Arie de Vries and Brian Tombleson have already volunteered to help out, and 
Brian has volunteered use of a high-end `client' machine. I plan to have his 
machine plus a Celery 450 of my own and a P166-class box strung off the 
server (my own Athlon 1800) which will also be doing the presentation (with X 
and the presentation software nice-minus-tenned) and people silently doing 
stuff on all of these while I present.

They will have approximately 130 people attending the whole conference, and 
five concurrent streams, so on average we should have 27 attendees. I'm going 
to send them a teaser for the ECHALK list which will hopefully nudge that 
upwards a bit.

    http://www.ecawa.asn.au/conferences/conf2002/conf2002.htm

As the site says, `Session details coming soon', I have been told tha tthey 
are being keyed in as I type.

For the record, our session will be entitled `Speed Made Simple: Zero 
Management Full Power Computing for Under $800 per Screen Retail', and for 
those who weren't listening in previous meetings (or weren't SLPWA members), 
we will be showing off the Linux Terminal Server Project to educators and 
related people.

I intend to promote both SLPWA and PLUG. I hope to have handouts available, 
including some CDs of both Linux and Windows OSS software (at least 
OpenOffice, Mozilla and some edutainment, specific suggestions welcome) so if 
someone wants to drum up a one-pager for SLPWA and for PLUG (this goes to 
both lists) extolling the virtues of each organisation from the PoV of 
educators, please say so and that would be much appreciated. Something like 
an A4 or a 3-fold would be fine. I can arrange the copying.

Cheers; Leon

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