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Five years of bringing Linux to the Feds first-hand







Five years of bringing Linux to the Feds
first-hand

Five years of bringing Linux to the Feds
first-hand
03/08/2004 11:28 PM

Tim Bogart, a mainstay of the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NoVaLUG), is getting ready for the group's fifth annual appearance at FOSE, the Federal Office Systems Exposition. The LUG setup is always among the most humble ones, seemingly lost in the midst of flashy displays from commercial hardware and software vendors hoping for a piece of the federal pie, but it is always one of the busiest spots on the show floor. Tim and I chatted via IM a few days ago. This edited transcript of our conversation can and should serve as an "advocacy guide" for other LUG activists who want to do effective Linux promotion at computer expositions that are not all about Linux -- which are often the kind of shows where LUG advocacy does the most good.




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