[oclug] Fwd: [oclug-board] Sounding-Out on November Topic

[Jon Earle]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 cbbrowne at ntlug.org wrote:

> [Personally, ESR doesn't thrill me much; despite ESR's politics being
> a little closer to mine than RMS's, I'd _much_ prefer to hear RMS.  But
> that's just me...]

Well, they're both windbags, but this talk could be interesting.  It would
certainly answer a lot of questions that must be running through so many
minds.

Why not try pitching the idea to local radio?  CHEZ, CFRA (get Lowell to
plug it!  haha!)  They might give a non-profit org a few seconds.  Even if
it's late at night, that's when the geeks are up to play!  :)

> It would be _much_ safer, simpler, and more effective to get 20 people to
> donate $50 to help out than to start making up $2 tickets, and then having
> the bureaucratic mess of people at the door scrutinizing a membership
> list to see if someone's an OCLUG member.

Does it really matter if the person wishing to see the man speak is a
member or not?  If the person wants to pay $2 to see the man speak, why
would we not simply take the money and send him/her inside?

> It would look really silly to charge admission to a talk about free
> software, wouldn't it?

Yes.

Jon