Just an opinion, but, I think it would be better to show the OSS alternatives to windows apps.  Why would I switch my desktop if I still have to use MS Office and Photoshop.  Showing off the power of GIMP and Open Office would in my opinion be better for demos.  Corel Office and Draw for Linux might be good too (even thought they run on top of a modified WINE, they are marketed as linux native).  It would be nice to have the windows apps running under *nix to show people who say they can't live without them or don't trust the OSS solution, but I don't think we should focus on showing how we can run windows apps.  Just a thought, maybe I'm too bias.

Sandi was saying she wanted to show OpenOffice/StarOffice.  

I want to help as much as I can, but I am not sure if I will be able to get off work.

Dusty

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> 
> Wayne,
> 
>     I think that Win4Lin/VMWare/Plex86/Wine would all be good ideas for
> presentations. I also have an associate that can get M$ Office running
> under Wine (Using a preinstalled Windows Partition). These are all good
> ideas. So, Wayne, are you volunteering for the Win4Lin demo?
> 
> Deven Phillips, CISSP
> Network Architect
> Viata Online, Inc.
> 
> "W. Wayne Liauh" wrote:
> > 
> > The majority of the visitors will be Windows users, thus, perhaps a demo running
> > a few popular Windows programs (e.g., Photoshop, MS Office, etc.) under Win4Lin
> > will be a good draw?
> > 
> > Warren Togami wrote:
> > 
> > > I would like to setup the following demonstrations, although I will need
> > > several other people at the booth for different shifts to be able to explain
> > > and demonstrate.  I can't do it all alone.
> > > Linux Terminal Servers & Thin Clients
> > > Linux Firewalls and Routers
> > > PHP & MySQL Web Applications
> > >
> > > Ho'ala,
> > > Are you doing Samba and qmail?
> > >
> > > Deven,
> > > Do you think they would be interested in a full presentation on Linux
> > > Terminal Servers & Thin Clients?  TC's seem to be popular topics nationally
> > > with Microsoft, Apple, and Sun with competing products.  It would be
> > > important for Open Source to have representation on the subject.
> > >
> > > I spoke with Darin at ITEC today and he said that the last conference they
> > > held on the mainland had about the same attendance as this upcoming event,
> > > and the Linux User's Group booth there had over 1,000 visitors.  We will
> > > seriously need more resources in volunteer manpower, handouts, and Linux
> > > CD's to hand out at the event.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Deven Phillips" <dphillips@viata.com>
> > > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau@list.luau.hi.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 4:56 PM
> > > Subject: [luau] Presentations For ITEC - Submit Early!!!
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to ask anyone interested in helping at the ITEC conference
> > > > to send me an E-Mail describing what they are capable of helping with,
> > > > and when. I would like to know what sorts of presentations the groups
> > > > propose. Remember, this open source and not just Linux; so *BSD, OSS
> > > > Windows software, and anything of the type is asked for and appreciated.
> > >
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