RedHat Linux Road Tour

[Peter Motyka]

That's great and all, I know I'll be there.

But one thing lingers in my mind... Why did they decide to come here?

--Beanie

Well, because we asked them to!  We are on the route and happen to have some linux users.  True, we are not a *nix university, but we sure do have some people that will make this event fun and successful :)

I can't wait!!!

Peter

[Stiffler]

I am all ecstatic about them coming here. I told my CMIS teacher about it today, so she can tell the CMIS teacher that teaches Linux, and hopefully have the students come to the event.

Jon

[Peter Motyka]

You are taking a CMIS course? wierd....
Anyway, I have already contacted Jim Musselman about this.  He teaches CMIS464 and they use RedHat in there.  Hopefully he will bring the whole class over for a fieldtrip!!!

Peter

[Victor Cardona]

I am going to try to get my boss to let the office staff come.

Victor

[Peter Motyka]

The more the better!  I am really wanting to pack the auditorium (it seats about 100 people).  I was hoping to do alot of advertising for this but that has already become a problem.  My request to put the info for the event on the lighted marquee signs was denied.  They refused on the basis that the event promotes a commercial entity....  Anyway, I will soon be papering the campus with flyers...  I am still confident that we can pull enough people.  Anyone else have any ideas for advertising?

Peter

[Jim Sodam]

I'll be there!

[Chris Swingler]

Hmm... not on the marquee?  Not cool.

I imagine that it may make front-page SIUE website news if it's successful, but that will be after the fact.

If we had the money, I'd say we could get something going in the Alestle, but, alas, that can be pricey.  (Though I'm not sure how pricey, the Advertising section at www.thealstle.com doesn't work.)

Talk to Datajacks and Radio Shack, see if they may help us bring in a few people.  
Notify a few local television networks, they may be nice enough to plug it.  
I believe advertising on UHTV-96 is free, and I think the forms are in the lobbies of the residence buildings.  (Even though nobody ever watches the marquee that scrolls up between movies, maybe some random channel surfer will find it.)
Be sure to pepper the campus pretty well, and hit all the residence halls, the EB, and the SL in particular.
And as a last resort, see if any of the CS teachers are willing to offer extra credit to people that go.  (The only problem with this is we'll have a bunch of CS140 students who can't tell a bash prompt from a DOS prompt, let alone have never _seen_ a C:\> prompt.)

And hopefully, we'll have a good turnout.

--Beanie

[Stiffler]

To quote a CS Teacher that teaches C++, "What do you mean by 'Consol Application'?" Do you get that?

When you start a new program in VS6, don't you click on "Consol Application" in the "new" window, or is it, "a new thingy" that it says?

Jon

[Ryan Lintker]

Actually, I was taught to create a new source file.  The console just came after compiling and building.  I can understand how some students may not know what to call the console window.

[Guest]

http://www.stllinux.org/

[Kade P. Cole]

Try to get it posted on SIUE Events website
Email: siuevents@siue.edu

And talk to the SIUE Student Affairs office 650-2020

[Stiffler]

Ryan, you may not know what I meant. I meant that a Teacher said that, not a student. Well, that's off topic.

Are the Engineering ppl going to have that "Cheap Lunch" in the Atrium on Nov 6 like they have been for the past weeks? If not, they might want to setup for it, or we could setup some kind of lunch there. That way the visiting Redhat ppl won't need to eat the bad food in the MUC.

Jon

[Peter Motyka]

Yes, I have talked to Don of IEEE about this.  He suggested that we may need to provide some voluneers to keep it going that late in the afternoon.  So, if you wound not mind helping staff the cheap lunch table, let me know.  I guess we could do it in 30min shifts so nobody has to miss too much fun?

Peter

[Peter Motyka]

I made up a preliminary flyer... Please check it out and give me some feedback.

http://caos.siue.edu/luucs/redhatroadtour.jpg

Peter

[Stiffler]

You don't mention anything about them arriving at 10AM and hanging around the atrium. Other than that, it's not bad.

Jon