[Speakers] Speaker intro, Administrivia: addresses, vendors etc.

[Aniruddha Mulay]

Hello,

--- Steve Traugott wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Someone's going to need to introduce this month's speaker -- I'm out
> of town this week.  Ani, since you found the speaker, it's your
> prerogative to either do the intro or make sure someone else does.
>
> Can you make sure it gets done?

OK. I will do my part. :)

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--- and in another message, Steve wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> Couple of items:
>
> - Make sure we have an e-mail address for each speaker posted
>   somewhere in the speakers list archives, preferably in the
>   CONFIRMED message. This is so I can Bcc the speaker with the
>   announcement notice as a way of making sure they remember to
>   show up.  ;-)

Steve,

I completely agree with your point.

In a way, it's bad on my part, but they (Digeo) had a policy of
channeling all the communication through head of Corp Comm hence
all the previous correspondence was with Gina. Unfortunately,
from speakers list's view, the circuit didn't appear to close ...

I have forwarded the announcement e-mail to Guy Sotomayor, the
Speaker for Oct 2003 and to Craig Michaels, who's going to demo
the product.

> - Since we're booked so far in advance now, we can probably afford
>   to go slow on signing up vendors as speakers unless they are in
>   some way astounding. Vendors tend to pull smaller audiences. And
>   vendors are always easy to get on short notice, in case we do have
>   a non-vendor speaker fall thru.   Use your best judgement.
>  
>   (Note that if we don't practice *some* vendor restraint, we'll have
>   a vendor-heavy schedule, because vendors are always much more
>   persistent than individuals.)

Why don't we try to "book" some front-line kernel developers, lead
developers for some interesting open source projects, cutting edge
technologies etc. ...

I'm sure we can do that.
Regards,

(Ani)ruddha Mulay

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