[Speakers] [Officers] Regarding upcoming scheduled SVLUG speakers

[Marc MERLIN]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:47:37PM -0800, William R Ward wrote:
> >May - David B Allen, Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap
> >  David wrote a book on the subject.  'speakers' list members seemed
> >  divided on whether we should accept his offer to speak.
> >  My initial concern was that maybe he was just coming to sell copies of
> >  his book, but someone on the 'speakers' list (Bill Ward? I forget) said
> >  that they knew him, or had seem him speak, or something, and that it should
> >  be fine.
> 
> Wasn't me, but it sounds like a good topic.
 
Honestly, I don't have great hopes for this one: the guy just wasn't smart
or knowledgeable when I worked with him, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
 
> >As with my experience as speaker coordinator for LUGOD, the folks we
> >invite are typically FAR less concern than the folks who contact us to see
> >if they can come speak.
> 
> Yes - because when we invite them we generally have some idea what
> they're about.
 
which applies here.
 
Marc
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