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[Alan McConnell]

According to David A. Cafaro:
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	.  .  .  .  .

> I don't care about yours or anyone else's "appearance or livery", I  
> do care about Tux.org appearance and presentation.  I personally  
> believe that Tux.org is best served if we show an "in my opinion"  
> professional look for a trade show.  I have some experience with  
> Trade shows and organized coherent groups usually have more success  
> at shows.
	A solution just came to me!  We are mostly(apologies, Megan,
	Julia!) a bunch of rowdy geeks, unherdable for the most part
	despite your best efforts, David<g>.  So what we really need
	to do is go to a modeling agency, and get some of those girls
	with long hair and short skirts like all the real big professional
	companies have.  We put them out front, with tons of CDs and
	lovely smiles, and when someone asks them a question . . .
	well, if they are truly beguiling they can probably make up
	the answer and it will satisfy the curious.

> It's not about personal appearance, it's about Tux.org corporate  
> appearance (yes we are a non-profit corporation), and the interaction  
> with other corporate and gov't types.
	No, we are _not_ a corporation.  Not at all.  There are a very
	few of us who belong to a corporation called Tux.org.   But Tux.Org
	is set up to manage our machines, not to administer volunteers.
	(Someday we'll find out how the elections, which I hear were
	recently held, went)

	We are nothing like the corporations in their booths, with their
	damsels and paraphernalia.  We are Linux people, and many of us
	are Free Spirits(TM) and proud of it.

> Can you honestly tell me that the majority of the business and  
> government types who make financial or final division wide corporate  
> decisions aren't more impressed with a coherent corporate appearance  
> vs a discordant appearance?
	I don't know.  There are heaps and heaps of people out there
	who haven't a clue and may make judgments on appearance.  Let's
	stay far from them.

> Not droids, but people who have there act together and organized.
	<ROTFL>  Oh, David, now you really are dreaming!

> Do we really want to make OpenSource advocates look like a collection  
> of mismatched unorganized "slackers" ;-)?
	<LOL>

> PS.  This is a great discussion, and happy to be having it.
	Whatever.  Let me conclude by saying that you are taking on
	an important task, and I compliment you for the work that you
	are doing.

Best wishes to all,

Alan

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