[Leaplist] Fwd: FW: FACUG FALL CONFERENCE AND TechFair 2007 Flyers

[Hank Lambert]

It's funny that you post this; before I found LEAP, I went to 4 of their
(CFCS) meetings in my desperation to find other serious computer enthusiast
like myself. I never joined, and stopped going because I felt like your
exact statement was happening. I saw what appeared to me as some members
taking advantage of some of the lesser computer literate members by using
their own businesses to "help" them out. Additionally, rather than a club of
hobbyist, it felt like a Microsoft sanctioned computer tradeshow, and the
overbearing arrogance of a large number of the members was sickening. Not my
cup of tea.

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From: leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org [mailto:leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org] On
Behalf Of Homer Whittaker
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Fwd: FW: FACUG FALL CONFERENCE AND TechFair 2007
Flyers

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:22 -0400, Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2007, patrick wrote:
> > Phil Barnett wrote:
> > > Does anyone in our group want to be involved in this?
I did belong to the CFCS many years ago. Anyone who becomes involved
should be aware that the "Powers That Be". the behind the screen folks,
make their living working with the CFCS mass of members.  They used to
make some rather good dollars selling parts, service, and Microsoft
Software.  Microsoft took care of the "in" people more than adequately.

My reason for posting this is that many of you know this but others may
not.
Homer whittaker


> >
> > Would be a good venue for demonstration of Linux distros, and handing
> > out for donations, some livecds. CFCS President is really trying to get
> > all technologies into the club, but, in the past, the Linux Sig really
> > was sad.  Presentations of Linux before the club was well received with
> > about 100 folks in attendance, and it seemed somewhat of a mystery to
> > most of the folks in CFCS, who are rabid M$ Fanbois, that Linux can do
> > so many things that Microsoft does poorly, or not at all.
> >
> > So, would like to have a 3D Beryl demo, (but, don't have one, myself,
> > yet), and could bring two systems to demo, like a Fedora Core 7 Compaq
> > Evo with wifi card, and a HP PIII or Whitebox AMD Duron or Athlon unit,
> > that boots liveCDs like Knoppix, Mepis, and PCLinuxOS.
> 
> You absolutely have my blessing, although I can't invest any time in it.
> 
> I suspect there are other members of our group who will help.
> 

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