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[Stephen Michael Kellat <skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/17/10 8:28 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> As our Dayton Lead ( Jordan ) has recently reminded me, we have some
> stuff to take care of!
> 
> This is the official start of OLF plotting. Let's try and get some
> donations in the jar to snag a table again this year.
> 
> If we can get $100+ over what we need, we can get a banner too ( It's
> like a crappy video game! )
> 
> 
> Jordan will be taking lead on OLF plotting, so he has the final word
> on what goes on!
> 
> 
> Viva La Open-Source!
> Paul
> 
> 

Fearless Leader asked that I remember to hit "Reply All" rather than
"Reply" so the list could benefit from what I wrote relative to OLF.  As
I wrote to Paul with one small correction to add a "GNU" where it belongs:

> For better or for worse, I did get a presentation proposal in.  The
> proposal was:
> 
> TITLE: Linux and Libraries: Opportunities For Evangelism
> 
> SUMMARY: Public libraries are fertile grounds for promoters of Linux to
> act.  As beachheads in today's knowledge ecology, libraries present
> opportunities for evangelism.  Beyond simply standing behind a table
> handing out install discs, how can evangelism go deeper?  Through
> service opportunities and ideas for community-initiated programs, ways
> to go beyond passing out discs will be explored so that the Linux
> community might increase in numbers.
> 
> BIO: Stephen Michael Kellat is currently the Head Writer of Erie Looking
> Productions in Ashtabula County and presenter of "LISTen: An LISNews.org
> Podcast".  He holds the degree of Master of Science in Library Science
> from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.  Current adventures in Linux
> including running Lucid Lynx on an older PowerPC G4 system.
> 
> I haven't presented any papers for a while due to budgetary limits so my
> pitch to OLF was speculative for now.  If you want to look at other
> papers I've actually delivered at conferences, you can find such here:
> 
> http://eprints.rclis.org/11015/
> http://eprints.rclis.org/11016/
> 
> Both are in a GNU EPrints-based archive which uses software you can find
> here: http://www.eprints.org/software/

For now, I have to wait for an up or down on the pitch.

SMK
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