Re: [SLUG] (FWD) Speaker request

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 10:30:18 EST


On Mar 22, 2004, at 9:19 PM, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> I wrote to apologize to the guy myself, and when he wrote back, he
> seemed fairly unconcerned. If memory serves, they have meetings every
> two weeks, and three of their members already run Linux. This guy just
> figured everyone would be tired of hearing him speak (I know how that
> is), so he wanted someone else to give a talk on Linux. I don't think
> this is "geek-from-hell" group, so I don't imagine things have to be
> that technical. Still, he wasn't clear about what they wanted in a
> talk,
> so you might just have to use your psychic powers to divine what they
> might be interested in ahead of time. ;-}

I did send him a note and got a response back pretty quickly. You're
right, he's pretty unconcerned with timing. He's gonna check and see
if/when they feel like rescheduling.

I should tell him we're gonna untie Paul and stop making him run
Windows 3.1 for dropping the ball on his request I guess...

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