[UCLA-LUG] LILAX and Two Ideas for High Attendance Presentations

[Mark Fasheh]

There will be a couple of UCLALUG guys there as well (myself included), so
maybe we could all talk?
	--Mark

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Mark James Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, John Wenger wrote:

> tchow wrote:
> > 
> > yeah, it would have been nice if i went.  i'll join the lilax list now...
> > 
> > but 5 hours? geez, i can't make it through my hour long classes :)
> > 
> > tchow
> 
> Two things:
> 
> You could if they were interesting enough.
> 
> There will probably never be another presentation that long.
> 
> John
> 
> P.S.
> 
> While I am at it.  I have never seen anyone with such energy
> and passion for getting good Linux speakers as Ismet at
> LILAX.  For example, after the Mutt talk, I told him that I
> had asked someone to try to contact Sandra Bullock to add
> some pizzazz the publicity for the Eric Raymond talks, but
> my guy could not find her.  Ismet said no problem: her web
> site is run by a LILAX member.  I said I would like to get
> Esther Dyson, former president of the Electronic Freedom
> Foundation, http://www.eff.org/, and daughter of the Noble
> Laureate in Physics Freeman Dyson, and Ismet said no
> problem, that Esther is one of Ismet's mother's best
> friends.
> 
> The ultimate.  He wanted to get Linux Torvaldis to present
> at LILAX, and thought that Linus might be lured to LA if he
> were offered an appearance on the Tonight Show.  So he found
> an attorney who plays golf with the attorney for the
> Network/Tonight Show, got the OK, and then emailed Linus,
> who has not yet responded.  I figure Linux probably thought
> this was a hoax, so we will probably try again and get the
> offer made with a call from the Tonight Show.
> 
> If we pull this off, we would like to co-host this with
> either UCLA or USC in order to get a large venue so that
> this can be shared widely.
> 
> I plan to discuss this with Erik Hovland of USC-LUG at their
> Linux 3D session this Thursday evening.
> 
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