Howdy folks,<br>First off, I'd like to say "Hi" to everyone as I just joined the list & am looking forward to attending the first meeting.<br><br>As far as garnering more interest in attendees, I've got a couple ideas.
<br>Everyone's got blogs these days & I'm sure most of you do as well. Maybe writing up a small bit about it would, at least, expose more folks to this. The same could be used for the myriad of social networking sites out there- myspace, gather, friendster, linkedIn, etc.
<br><br>Also, what about emailing your friends about it? I know, personally, the majority of my friends are non-techies but they might know a friend of a friend, etc. As someone who's an avid believer in open-source & Linux, I tell lots of friends about it, blog about & the like in an effort to at least open people's eyes to the fact they have options they're not even aware of.
<br><br>Since I've yet to meet you folks, I hope this doesn't come off as "who's this new guy trying to talk to?"<br><br>Cya folks next Thursday,<br>--miguel<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/7/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Gallizzi</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew.gallizzi@gmail.com">matthew.gallizzi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
mhmm, good points. Especially the first. I can definitely see some issues there.<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Emerson, Tom (*IC)</b> <<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><div><span class="e" id="q_113081ddc528d2b8_2"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Interesting, but has a few problems -- I set up a search for the term
<br>"rockets" and got an article on Brittany Spears (hitting "rock" bottom),<br>someone who mentioned eating at "johnny rockets", a page of band events<br>where one band (or was it a song?) had the word "rocket" in their name,
<br>and so on. All too often when I search for "linux", I get unrelated<br>pages where there happens to be an /ad/ for something "linux related" on<br>the page -- the "story" itself has nothing to do with linux...
<br><br>I'm also not too keen on the fact that the links take you to /their/<br>version of the page, and then you have to click again to get to the<br>/actual/ page referenced...<br><br>-----Original Message----- Of Matthew Gallizzi
<br><br><br>This site has a cool widget we could put on the site for Linux news.<br><br><a href="http://www.rootly.com/tools/widget/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.rootly.com/tools/widget/
</a><br><br><a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.linuxforums.org/
</a> has it on the bottom left hand corner...<br>but, you can do a lot of different customizations with it. Just a<br>thought :D<br><br>[<br></blockquote></span></div></div><br><br>
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