| * | Swanee hears the pounding of a gavel in the distance
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| <Abraxas> | Is everybody READY??
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| <gordon> | ready
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| <Longstaff> | i'm ready....i'm ready
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| <SunnyBear> | ready
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| <GregB> | Yeah!!
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| <ckap> | ready
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| <Swanee> | Check, all systems go...
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| * | Dirk readies a WarpCast message
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| <Hawklord> | Semper fi
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| <M_OKeefe> | let 'er rip!!
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| <MADodel> | Geronimo
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| <Abraxas> | First of all, VOICE would like to thank Warpstock for allowing us the opportunity to host this announcement .... it's a great honor and privilege
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| <GentleBen> | Woo Hoo...Where's Warpstock gonna be?
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| * | Swanee watches Dirk's itchy finger about to hit "Send"
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| <mandie> | lol
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| <GentleBen> | LOL
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| <GentleBen> | Mandie!
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| <Abraxas> | But ... as I know you are all waiting for the REAL info .... I'll turn this meeting over to John Ratti ....
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| <mandie> | Gentle: hi :)
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| <Abraxas> | Ratti ... it's all yoursd
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| <mandie> | go Ratti, go Ratii, go Ratti :)
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| <GentleBen> | mandie: Wouldn't miss this for the world. :>
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| <Ratti> | Thanks to VOICE for providing this forum for Warpstock! And to WEBBNET for hosting it!
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| <Ratti> | We started with 6 teams who were interested in submitting bids...
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| * | Longstaff seconds the thanx to VOICE
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| <Egon> | Thanks everyone for SOMETHING :)
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| * | GentleBen dittos Longstaff
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| <GentleBen> | :>
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| <Ratti> | Unfortunately, due to the short time frame allowed, 4 had to drop out of this year's bidding...
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| <Ratti> | Which left us with 2 very strong, yet decidedly unique bids, from Atlanta and Southern California (SCOUG)
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| <Ratti> | It was quite difficult to decide between the two. The voting was very close.
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| <Ratti> | After a week of arguing (it's a good thing most of you didn't have to endure those exchanges)
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| * | Swanee sits on his hands... unable to move... staring at the screen... (his hands are warm)
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| <mandie> | arguing=constructive input :)
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| <Swordedge> | Ratti does know how to drag it out, doesn't he ;-)
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| * | phethmon Still sporting wounds
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| <mandie> | hehe
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| <Ratti> | the Warpstock Board of Directors selected the bid from (hey, I can drag it out even longer if you want)
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| <Ratti> | Warpstock '99 Atlanta
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| <GentleBen> | LOL
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| <Dirk> | Yippeeeee!!!!
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| <Swanee> | Yeah... Three cheers for Atlanta....
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| <mandie> | Congrats Atlanta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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| <GregB> | Congratulations, Atlanta!
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| <Swordedge> | Only 6 hours drive.... Great!
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| <ckap> | Great Closer to me
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| <WarpHoss> | **Hurrrah, Hurrah,, Hurrah!!!***
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| <GregB> | I'm making plans already!
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| <Ratti> | We have some of the members of the Atlanta Team here with us today:
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| <Longstaff> | ******* ALANA!!!! ********
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| <GentleBen> | LOL
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| <Longstaff> | which hotel?
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| <GentleBen> | Longstaff needs to go back to grade school
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| <WarpHoss> | Bags packed Airline reservations being made now what date???
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| * | Swanee would be cheering for LA too. He's just happy to see you all anywhere!
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| <GentleBen> | :>
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| <trixer_> | Longstaff, Morisette?
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| <mandie> | hold on folks
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| <mandie> | plz hold the qustions until
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| <Ratti> | I am pleased to introduce the Chairman of Warp[stock '99 Atlanta, Gordon Roland!
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| <Longstaff> | gentleben....locally they don't pronounce the 't's
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| <mandie> | Ratti is done and the new chairmain for ws99 is announced
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| <Dirk> | (Rpeorter Mode on) What is the name of the Atlanta group?
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| <GentleBen> | Longstaff: LOL
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| <mandie> | we will go unmoderated unless Gordon becomes overwhelmed with questions
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| <gordon> | hi everyone!
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| <Swordedge> | how about the date?
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| <mandie> | Dirk: the Atlanta Team
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| <Dirk> | thanx
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| <WarpHoss> | Congrats Gordon.
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| <gordon> | ok...first we'd like to thank everyone at the Warpstock board for making this a challanging but very rewarding experience...
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| <gordon> | ...and we're just getting started!
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| <SCOUG> | SCOUG contratulates the Atlanta team on their winning bid.
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| <gordon> | Thanks SCOUG. And we hope that we will be able to take advantage of your experience and expertise to help make this the greatest Warpstock yet!
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| <ckap> | Is there a date and location yet?
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| <mandie> | SCOUG and Atlanta made the selection extremely difficult..they both had excellent proposals!
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| <gordon> | there is a date and location
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| * | Swanee congratulates SCOUG for bidding and being a GOOD competitor. My hat is off to you.
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| <Abraxas> | VOICE also congratulates the Atlanta Team, and thanks them, SCOUG and Warpstock Inc. for all the time and effort involved in this venture
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| <gordon> | John, are ready to announce the details?
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| <gordon> | thanks VOICE
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| <Ratti> | gordon, that's your job
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| <mandie> | hehe
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| <SCOUG> | We offer our support to Gordon. We will contact you off-line.
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| <gordon> | OK. Warpstock 99 will be held at the Georgia International Convention Center Oct 16 and 17
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| * | Swanee marks his calender
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| <gordon> | the official hotel of Warpstock will be the Sheraton Gateway Atlanta Airport, which adjoins the convention center
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| * | Abraxas is already checking reservations
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| <gordon> | and did I mention a possible half day? depending on interest
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| * | Swanee is interested
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| <MADodel> | Any special room rates there?
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| <mandie> | YOU would be!
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| <gordon> | a possible half day on Friday oct 15, that is
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| <Swanee> | mandie: lol
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| <gordon> | Yes MADodel
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| <MADodel> | When's Happy Hour?
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| <Longstaff> | half day? yeah, what's that about?
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| <gordon> | we are still putting the finishing touches on that agreement
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| <gordon> | but we can tell you that room rates this year will be better than last year
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| <WarpHoss> | Gordon: yess on the half day. And I will be availible for Volunteer when you need it.
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| <mandie> | Mad: fri-Sun ...late late late Sun :)
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| <gordon> | and the hotel is at least as nice as the Wyndham
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| <Swanee> | Longstaff: It's a good reason for us to get there early and visit. :-)
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| <mandie> | DavidA: hi!!
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| <Swanee> | Hi DavidA
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| <DavidA> | mandie: Hi there!
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| <GentleBen> | Hmmm...
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| * | Longstaff wants to get in early anyway
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| <GentleBen> | 800 Miles to Atlanta for me. :<
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| <Headache> | can you put location in topic please.. for those of us who arrived late?
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| * | Swanee wants Longstaff to get there early too.
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| <gordon> | BTW, if we pick up 90% of the rooms that we block (and that number is one of the things we are still working on) the hotel will give us their ballroom for a saturday night event
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| <GentleBen> | About a 14-15 hour drive. :<
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| <Ratti> | GentleBen: from where?
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| * | Swanee doesn't have a ballroom gown... YET!!
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| <gordon> | some folks may also be interested in attending the Atlanta Linux Showcase and Exhibition
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| <mandie> | Swanee: thank goodness!~ :)
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| <Dirk> | My drive last year was 24 hours. It was worth it.
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| <GentleBen> | Ratti: Pennsylvania
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| <Swanee> | gordon: Running at the same time/weekend?
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| <gordon> | which is being held Oct 12 through 16 about 20 miles from us
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| <mandie> | Dirk: much shorter this year :)
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| <Headache> | GentleBen: me too
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| * | Longstaff drives like a jerk
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| <Dirk> | Definitely :-)
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| * | Swanee drives jerky
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| <gordon> | the hotel will be extending the discount room rate for three days before and after our event
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| <gordon> | for those who prefer to fly the hotel and convention center are about 2 miles from Atlanta's main airport
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| <Longstaff> | gordon.....any idea what's the rate?
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| <WarpHoss> | Gordon: Koool. on the 3 days. I'm dialin 411 for the # of the hotel now.
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| <gordon> | better than last year's rate, but we aren't sure by how much yet...at least $10 better
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| <Headache> | what are the dates for this?
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| <Headache> | mid october?
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| <gordon> | within walking distance of the convention center there are also three other hotels with a wide range of room rates
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| <Headache> | thanks =)
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| <gordon> | the Sheraton also provides a complimentary shuttle from the airport
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| <phethmon> | I've got to go and attend some family obligations, but I want to extend my congratulations to the Atlanta team. I also want to thank SCOUG for making our job difficult. Both teams could put together an excellent Warpstock.
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| <Ratti> | Gordon, the other hotels look to be about 1/4 mile away, it that about right?
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| <Swanee> | Will they carry my computer equiptment AND my golf clubs? :-)
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| <gordon> | thanks paul. we look forward to seeing you in Atlanta
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| <gordon> | that's about right john
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| <phethmon> | You're welcome Gordon, let the fun begin :->
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| <mandie> | !ask ws99
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| <GregB> | Cheers, folks! I'll see you all in Atlanta. (Greg Bourassa)
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| <VoiceBot> | [ws99] Atlanta, Georgia Oct. 16, 17, 1999 visit http://www.warpstock.org for details (mandie)
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| <mandie> | we'll get the info up on the website as soon as possible
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| <mandie> | our webmaster is in Australia so there is a bit of time difference :)
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| <gordon> | we would very much like to get some suggestions and ideas from the group
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| <Swordedge> | hmmm, it is early morning down in aussie land
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| <gordon> | about what you would like to see and do at Warpstock
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| <mandie> | yes, almost 6am
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| <Swanee> | It's here Dirk. I'm surprised it took so long to get the announcement off.
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| <Longstaff> | early SATURDAY morning.....gotta watch that foster's
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| <Dirk> | Gotta run everyone. Congratulations Atlanta!
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| <Swanee> | By Dirk
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| <mandie> | Dirk: see you :)
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| <Headache> | umm a nice Las Vegas type burlesque show would be nice =)
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| <Swanee> | by=bye
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| <BlackDog> | very early morning here 4:39 actually
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| <Dirk> | Swannee: :-)
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| <gordon> | based on the survey from 98 it looks like last year's format was fairly well received...
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| * | Longstaff will be seeing atlanta for the first time.....what's the weather there like in october?
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| <mandie> | sorry, my error..he's not in australia :)
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| <gordon> | ...exhibition and presentations
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| <Ratti> | Longstaff: either hot or cold, rainy or clear.
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| <BlackDog> | and Sunday morning you Americans are a day behind ;-)
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| <mandie> | oh, that about says it all :)
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| <Ratti> | Hey, Atlanta is far enough south that it can still be hot in october.
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| <Longstaff> | hot, cold, pgUp, pgDown, Home, End :)
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| <Swordedge> | an if a single snow flake falls there, they close school for a week. They do that here in mid NC
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| <WarpHoss> | Reservations are made.
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| <Ratti> | WH: KEWL!
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| <WarpHoss> | Where swordedge?
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| <mandie> | Swordedge: I hear ya! I lived in Hickory and they closed the schools...even though the snow melted before it even hit the ground :)
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| <Swordedge> | triangle
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| <WarpHoss> | me=Piedmont Triad.
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| <Swanee> | Swordedge: If you ever get a couple hundred of those flakes you can try to make a snowball. Albeit a very tiny one...
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| <WarpHoss> | Who is coordinating Vol's this year?
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| <WarpHoss> | Nol's =Volunteers
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| <Swordedge> | From western PA, snicker the few times it does snow
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| <Ratti> | Hey! We had an inch of snow here in Jacksonville FL in '99. 1899!
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| <WarpHoss> | Vol's=Volunteers
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| <SunnyBear> | The announcement is up on the server page and linked to www.warpstock
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| <gordon> | we have someone designated from our team for volunteers...
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| <gordon> | ...but we want to be as inclusive as possible
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| <WarpHoss> | Well I hereby Volunteer 14,15,16,17 october.
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| <gordon> | it may be appropriate for us to let someone else take that position
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| <SunnyBear> | Ratti: forgive me, are you in JAX?
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| <Ratti> | SunnyBear: yes
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| <WarpHoss> | Not to coordinate to help/ gordon.
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| <SunnyBear> | we're in Daytona... I could hit you with a rock...
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| <SunnyBear> | course I'm not the violent type... :)
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| <Ratti> | Please don't....
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| <gordon> | one of our team members, Mike Okeefe, is an experienced and very talented graphic artists and publicist...
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| <gordon> | ...what are some of the groups thoughts about getting out the word on Warpstock?
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| <mandie> | ah M_Okeefe :)
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| <M_OKeefe> | yes, i'm very taented
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| <Swordedge> | gordon, does that mean we get an animated gif file for the logo...
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| <mandie> | M_Okeefe: great :)
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| <WarpHoss> | I will help in any way I can.
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| <M_OKeefe> | and god looking
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| <gordon> | i meant tainted, not talented ;-)
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| <mandie> | uh oh
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| <M_OKeefe> | whoops, i meant good looking
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| <WarpHoss> | mandie: where are we going to eat?
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| <Swordedge> | is god looking better than good looking?
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| <freiheit> | I thought only Eric Clapton was god looking.
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| <mandie> | WarpHoss: seafood again?
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| <Abraxas> | WarpHoss I'm already looking into that (eats) :-)
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| <gordon> | we would also like to come up with a visual theme for warpstock
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| <Longstaff> | gordon - notify the state tourist authorities that a major technology conference of anti m$ people will be taking place in tieir largest city
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| <Longstaff> | er, their
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| <Swanee> | freiheit: Yep, Eric does look alot like me in some ways. :-)
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| <WarpHoss> | mandie: Steak.
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| <mandie> | WarpHoss: that'll work too :)
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| <gordon> | you might be surprised how interested the press will be
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| <Swordedge> | Make that two anti MS conferences BACK TO BACK
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| <mandie> | Steak/Seafood house
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| * | Abraxas has actually been looking at Steakhouses
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| <WarpHoss> | Exactly.
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| <M_OKeefe> | seriously, we're in the process of developing a publicity strategy
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| <Swanee> | mandie: Of course WarpHoss see's food.
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| <Abraxas> | that also rank high in the seafood department
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| <gordon> | i have some old acquaintances who insist that i keep them up to date on what we're doing
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| <WarpHoss> | See Food eat it. That's me.
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| <mandie> | gordon: what is their interest?
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| <mandie> | publicity?
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| <Abraxas> | M_OKeefe Please be sure and let us (VOICE) know if there's anything we can help out with
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| <gordon> | surprisingly enough, there are still some folks out there who would like to have a choice
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| <WarpHoss> | M_Okeefe: Send me a pub_pkg and I will see to it tat it gets to the press here.
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| <WarpHoss> | tat=That.
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| <mandie> | that's refreshing!
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| <MADodel> | Any plans to invite Bill Gates or Al Gore, since they did invent computers and the internet?
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| <Swordedge> | How many UG's are left and do they all know about Warpstock?
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| <M_OKeefe> | we will certainly ask for help as needed. we'l have tasks identied as our plan become more defined
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| <mikh> | heya all
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| <gordon> | i suggested Elvis as the visual theme. You know, because so many people think that Elvis is dead. But Mike thought it might have negative conotations.
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| <WarpHoss> | M_Okeefe : keep me posted.
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| <SunnyBear> | hey mikh
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| <Swordedge> | I don't know how to do it but something about being Y2K complient
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| <gordon> | Al isn't available, he's off helping Mr. Bill invent voice and hand-writing recognition
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| <WarpHoss> | WarpHoss@bellsouth.net
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| <M_OKeefe> | for publicity, we can ge pretty good coverage employing prnewswire or business wire.
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| <mandie> | ok, listen up...I have a special announcement!
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| <mandie> | listening??????/
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| <WarpHoss> | I will tell my local frien to keep an eye ot for it.
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| <MADodel> | I hear that NT1901 will have that stuff built in. Maybe they are working on porting it from OS/2
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| <Swordedge> | YESS
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| <Longstaff> | mandie.....what? what?
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| <WarpHoss> | Listening.
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| <mandie> | VOICE is very proud to contribut $500 to WS99 towards the Social Event
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| <mandie> | contribute too :)
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| <Ratti> | BRAVO!
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| * | Longstaff wants to go
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| <gordon> | that is great mandie!!!
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| <Longstaff> | what's that?
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| <mandie> | :)
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| <WarpHoss> | mandie: how wunderful. the girl of my dreams gives out money!
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| <mandie> | lOL
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| <mandie> | carry on...I'm not giving anymore $ out!
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| <Swanee> | Does the social event include a little bit of fightin', drinkin' and wild se... I mean a nice get together?
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| <mandie> | Swanee: all of the above...at the bar down the street!
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| <Swordedge> | You guys are fast, the announcement has already showed up in my Warpcast folder
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| <Swanee> | mandie: :)
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| <gordon> | we have a great locale and some seed money for the warp party of the century. I think we should make this a priority for WS99!
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| <WarpHoss> | That's your room Swanee. The Social event.
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| <mandie> | Sword: Dirk was here and hit his send as soon as it was announced :)
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| <rexxer> | Hi all!!
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| <SunnyBear> | hi rexxer
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| <Ratti> | century doesn't end until 2000
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| <Swanee> | We're using yours this year WarpHoss! :-)
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| <Longstaff> | swanee....those are usual saturday night local customs in alana :)
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| <Swordedge> | The new century begins in 2001 because the year before 1AD was NOT 0ad, you can't have no year so it was 1BC
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| <Abraxas> | My apologies if I missed this ... but has there been any word on costs, yet ... Admission, Vendors, etc.?
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| <SunnyBear> | mandie: I got it up on the server page I bet before his mail arrived... heheheh
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| <mandie> | Warpstock, Inc., would like to extend their thank to Ratti for working so closely with the Atlanta team and providing support throughout the proposal
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| <Swanee> | Longstaff: I haven't been to Atlanta either but I'm sure we'll find the right places to congregate again. :-)
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| <Ratti> | Swprdedge: exactly
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| <mandie> | sunny: that's cause you be quick :)
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| <lamikr> | Hi, I came little late but would like to know who WIN? :)
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| <gordon> | oh, ok john, i guess this means we forget about the party unless we can find a way to make it absolutely Y2K compliant;-)
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| <mandie> | !ask ws99
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| <Abraxas> | lamikr Atlanta
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| <VoiceBot> | [ws99] Atlanta, Georgia Oct. 16, 17, 1999 visit http://www.warpstock.org for details (mandie)
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| <Ratti> | I intend to party from 1999 until 2001!
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| <rexxer> | Atlanta!!
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| <Swordedge> | and spend the rest of the oughts with a HANGOVER
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| <freiheit> | "...I'm going to party like it's on sale for $19.99."
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| * | Abraxas did a fair job of partying in Chicago .... and I'm sure I remember Longstaff being there during most of it :-)
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| <gordon> | the Warpstock 99 Atlanta team would like to extend our thanks and deep appreciation to john for keeping us moving forward during the proposal process
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| <Longstaff> | freiheit has been working too hard, obviously
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| <Ratti> | Swordedge: or die happy!
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| <lamikr> | Thanks, I hope I can this time orginize my possiblle job flyes to state little better. (Last year I was on Chicago 1 week to early. It was not not funny :(
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| <Ratti> | Gordon: it was my pleasure
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| * | Longstaff is always there for a party
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| <freiheit> | lamikr, good luck.
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| <Abraxas> | Swanee will back me up on that :-)
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| <freiheit> | We hope to see you.
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| <freiheit> | :)
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| <gordon> | john's right: the only way we can properly cover the trans-millenia issue is to just start partying this year and keep it going until some time in 2001. I don't see any other alternatives.
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| <mandie> | we all have to stay at the same hotel!
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| <gordon> | still would like to hear some thoughts on WS99 visual theme
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| <mandie> | gordon: you are going to get along with this group very well :)
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| <lamikr> | yeh, it is just not so easy to come from europe...
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| <Longstaff> | hmmm....does the sheraton have a presidential suite?
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| <mandie> | you'll fit right in!
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| <freiheit> | Wizard of Oz theme.
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| * | freiheit shrugs
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| <Ratti> | There are several resorts that are offering a 367 day New Year's Party. Starts at about $70,000!
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| <Projects> | !op
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| <Swanee> | back... Projects!!!
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| <WarpHoss> | Visual Theme : WarpStock99- Genesis : OS/2 Reborn.
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| <Longstaff> | visual theme this year, for a change of pace, should be light on dark
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| <Swanee> | freiheit: If it is Wizard of Oz can I be the lion this year?
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| <GentleBen> | What? Warp 5.0 Client for Warpstock??? That would be cool. :>
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| <mandie> | not going to happen
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| <Ratti> | Who'll be the Wizard?
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| <gordon> | another thing we have to think about is what message do we want to come out of WS99
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| <GentleBen> | Mandie: hehehe...We can dream cann't we? :>
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| <WarpHoss> | I don't think so either Mandie.
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| <mandie> | <-- wicked witch of the east!
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| <Swordedge> | by oct, aurora should be gold, brad wardell is the registered owner of warp2000, there should be something more concrete about a client.
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| <gordon> | a message WILL come from WS99 either by design or by default...
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| <Swordedge> | msg.... Alive and well and ready to kick a**
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| <Ratti> | Mandie: so who's Glinda?
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| <mandie> | hmm...Esther :)
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| <gordon> | ...we should take control of the message before the fact to make sure no one else does
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| <lamikr> | Btw, are you going to announce bid winner in http://www.slashdot.org/
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| <Ratti> | I'll be the munchkin coronor.
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| <GentleBen> | Mmmm...that was tasty. :>
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| <Ratti> | Reinhart Rabbe
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| <mandie> | hehe
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| <Ratti> | He lives near here.
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| <WarpHoss> | And the Wizard is...???
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| * | GentleBen just ate some Corn Dogs. :>
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| <Longstaff> | theme suggestion: honest 32bit stable multi-user software
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| <mandie> | Warphoss: gordon, silly!~ :)
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| <Ratti> | Lo
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| <Swanee> | Really I want to be the old magician (Billy Crystal) in "The Princess Bride"
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| <trixer_> | w
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| <Ratti> | Hmmm, costume part Saturday Night?
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| <trixer_> | oops
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| <Abraxas> | M_OKeefe have prices been set, yet? ... Admision, Vendor Tables...?
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| <Swordedge> | maybe you could bet whatizit from the 96 olympics to drop in
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| <mandie> | gordon: have you given any thought to letting people sign up for BOF sessions prior to ws99?
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| <Swordedge> | bet=get
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| <gordon> | brb
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| <WarpHoss> | Ratti : Why not? good idea.
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| <Ratti> | Longstaff: which is already available, has a known track record, and is already y2k compliant!
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| <M_OKeefe> | prices. no, that would be premature to discuss at this point. The main goal is to keep costs to a minimum
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| <freiheit> | theme: Just Say Yes (To Choice)
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| <Ratti> | Sorry, that s/b Costume Party
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| <mandie> | freiheit: and we'll give out red/white/blue ribbons :)
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| * | Longstaff doesn't care what it costs
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| * | rexxer will try hard to be there!!
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| <WarpHoss> | Longstaff: ok pick up my tab ;-)
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| * | GentleBen is gonna try to be there... :>
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| * | mandie will be there
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| <gordon> | hi guys, sorry another member of our team is tring to get here
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| * | Ratti will be there on Thursday!
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| <GentleBen> | Longstaff: What? You're paying for everybody's entrance fee? :D
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| * | Abraxas will be there .... no question .... but we (VOICE) need to start planning ... and cost of vendor table and admission is one of the factors
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| * | Swanee will be there "If the creek don't rise"
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| <Longstaff> | warphoss......i might, but i need some working code :)
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| <Longstaff> | swanee - if the creek rises: flush it
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| <Swanee> | Longstaff: lol
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| <M_OKeefe> | I think gordon and aat will be able to supply the vendor/admission $ figures at a later date
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| <gordon> | my experience has been that BOF sessions tend to materialize at a conference rather than before...
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| <mandie> | no no...God willing and the creek don't rise!
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| <M_OKeefe> | sorry, i meant Anat. (geez, my typing is poor today)
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| <WarpHoss> | Kool. Longstaff. If ya need a tester and it's os/2 look me up.
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| <gordon> | ...but we are open to any structure
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| <Ratti> | TOM!
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| <TS2> | Ratti!
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| <TS2> | Did I miss anything?
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| <mandie> | gordon: ok, just a thought...in the past, they were hard to coordinate on site. Maybe a Board to post changes, BOF sessions/time etc
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| <WarpHoss> | WarpHoss will be there Wednesday.
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| <Ratti> | Is the website ready for this announcement?
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| <Swordedge> | just the announcement
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| <Ratti> | TOM: almost everything...
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| <mandie> | TS2!!! better late than never :)
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| <TS2> | The website is ready, Luc was waiting for the offical announcment
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| <gordon> | yeah, good idea mandie. i think the key will be to have a coordination strategy in place and someone to control the process
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| <mandie> | gordon: exactly :)
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| <TS2> | Ratti, Yes.
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| <Ratti> | Tom: let him have it!
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| * | mandie feels that this will be a very well planned conference!
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| * | Ratti does too!
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| <rexxer> | even better than WS98 :)
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| <gordon> | on registration: we will have a two tier system again this year
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| <TS2> | Ratti: Yes sir!
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| <mandie> | gordon: maybe you'd like to tell the folks a bit about the ppl on your team and their experience with conferences
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| <Ratti> | Sir?
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| <TS2> | : )
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| <Swordedge> | does "let him have it" mean we all throw lemon marague(sp) pies at him!
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| <Ratti> | I was hoping Luc would be here...
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| <WarpHoss> | mandie: good prompt.
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| <mandie> | Ratti: he slipped :)
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| <mandie> | :)
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| <gordon> | early registration will be cheaper than late registration
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| <gordon> | good idea mandie
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| <Ratti> | mandie?
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| <mandie> | ratti: he didn't mean to say sir :)
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| <WarpHoss> | Can I register now? ;-)
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| <Ratti> | ah....
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| <mandie> | warphoss: sure...send ME your money :)
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| <Ratti> | wh: soon
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| <mandie> | gordon has the floor
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| <WarpHoss> | Cash rite mandie? *8-)
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| <gordon> | Mike is our pulicity and design guy. He is currently director of creative services for an IT consulting company in NYC
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| <gordon> | Mike has years of experience getting out the word on projects like WS99
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| <M_OKeefe> | yes. I handle our firms advertising and publicity. we aso do a lot of trade shows, so I'm experienced there, as well
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| <gordon> | Mike also is very experienced with both web and publication design and production
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| <gordon> | that's why we keep going back to the visual theme for WS99. We have someone who can do a very professional job for us
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| <Swordedge> | guess you need a theme before that cool web page logo for the UG web site
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| <gordon> | Anat is our facilities coordinator. She was responsible for finding what is turning out to be a nearly ideal site for us
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| * | Longstaff applauds the atlanta team, and can't wait to get there
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| <gordon> | Anat has put together huge conferences pretty much single handed. So again, we have a talented professional available to us to make sure we get everything done.
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| <TS2> | gordon: has Anat verified that the roof does not leak when it rains?
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| <mandie> | gordon: didn't one of her conference's consist of about 12,000 ppl :)
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| <gordon> | We are doing an on-site inspection in about two weeks to make sure the floor stays dry this year
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| <TS2> | Excellent! : )
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| <gordon> | something like that mandie. when anat gets here she can give us the exact number
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| <Swanee> | gordon: Will you be running a garden hose if the weather is dry, "Just to be sure"?
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| <TS2> | From what I have been able to gather, the GICC will be a great place, best so far.
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| <gordon> | I want to remind the guys here that although Anat is single, she is also a former Israeli air force officer, so be polite;-)
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| <WarpHoss> | Visual theme "WarpStock99-Choice is a good thing."
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| <mandie> | I doubt that we'll have water problems this year
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| <mandie> | Warpstock99-It's YOUR choice
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| <M_OKeefe> | I like the choice angle on the theme. lack of choice is my bigest "issue" with wintel
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| <gordon> | We will publish more information about GICC as we can but, yes TS2, it is a great place.
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| <Swordedge> | the convention center has its own web site http://www.gicc.com/
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| <Swanee> | mandie: If we do... I'll just have a Windsor-Cloudy instead of a Windsor-Coke
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| <Ratti> | You can see it at http://www.gicc.com
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| <mandie> | hehe
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| <Ratti> | gmta
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| <TS2> | Will there be any attempt to contact any of the people going to the Lunix show? Maybe get some walk-ins?
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| <WarpHoss> | Warp is the mission critical choice.
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| <gordon> | the other member of our team who is having some trouble getting here today -- family commitment, not technical -- is Alan Greenberg
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| <M_OKeefe> | we have some germs of ideas for the theme, but maybe now would be a good time to take other's suggestions
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| <Longstaff> | mandie - you can't sloganize an operating system choice like that and win....it's not that simple
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| <Swanee> | Alan Greenberg or Alan Greenspan?
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| <gordon> | Alan got roped into this when he made the mistake of calling me to ask some OS/2 questions. seems that some of Arthur Andersen's biggest customers just can't quite seem to make the transition to "dominant" operating systems...
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| <mandie> | bless them! :)
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| <gordon> | ...at least not make a transition and stay in business!
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| <TS2> | Well, as long as IBM keeps them happy, I will be happy too.
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| <WarpHoss> | mode=lurk for now.
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| <Swanee> | M_OKeefe: What theme ideas have been floated so far? (have been floated? Is that proper?)
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| <Longstaff> | the branch of my state gov't suspended all payments to the nt server vendor last month
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| <mandie> | I have to run folks...Gordon and team..look forward to working with you and thank you for supporting OS/2 !!!
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| <Swanee> | Bye mandie. See you soon? :-)
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| <TS2> | By Mandie.
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| <mandie> | see ya :)
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| <Longstaff> | bye mandie
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| <WarpHoss> | bye mandie. Stay intouch,
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| <gordon> | thanks mandie! look forward to working with you this warpstock
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| <TS2> | Gordon: Are you thinking of having a keynote speaker this year?
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| <gordon> | yes we are ts2. one issue is cost...
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| <gordon> | ...but i'm talking to someone who may be willing to waive his speaing fee
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| <TS2> | gordon: Great, anyone we know ( and you can tell? )
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| <gordon> | i can't give you to much more yet. but this will be quite a coup if he can make it
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| <Swordedge> | just looked at the picture/floor plans on the gicc web site... The place is big, 35 meeting rooms.
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| <TS2> | gordon: we will be waiting to hear : )
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| <gordon> | yes swordedge. we will be on the left side of the floor plan in exhibit hall a and six meeting rooms over on the left
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| <Concept> | Is Larry F still around?
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| <Swordedge> | net access too?
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| <M_OKeefe> | I'm going to have to beg off. may I answer any questions you may have before I go?
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| <gordon> | we can have comm lines run in fairly inexpensively
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| <Ratti> | Concept: not here today, but yes, he's president of the Warpstock Board.
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| <Swordedge> | concept just logged on
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| <Concept> | Rats... I was hoping he was here for the announcement...
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| <gordon> | Larry Flynt is president of Warpstock Board? Who'd have guessed;-)
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| <Ratti> | He had a business engagement...
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| <M_OKeefe> | or if anyone would like to offer suggestions before i leave...?
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| <Concept> | Hmmmm... okay. With luck it's what I think it is. Thanks!
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| <Ratti> | gordon: haven't you seen my email sig?
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| <Swordedge> | M_Okeefe, just make sure we get to put a logo on the UG web sites months before the event.
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| <Abraxas> | M_OKeefe any idea on Internet Connection?
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| <gordon> | of course john
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| <M_OKeefe> | in what regard, abraxas?
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| <Abraxas> | M_OKeefe As in what type of connection will be available?
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| <Abraxas> | ISDN, T1 ?
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| <gordon> | we can get anything from 56K to T3 run into GICC
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| <Swordedge> | boy scout with semaphore flags?
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| <Ratti> | low bit rate
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| <gordon> | our guess is that 128K ISDN will do the trick
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| <Abraxas> | Swordedge that's what we had in Chicago :-)) (just kidding)
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| <M_OKeefe> | that's a logistical question, ...gordon?
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| <WarpHoss> | Thanks M_Okeefe for your time and efforts.
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| <gordon> | but we have time to come up with a better guess
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| <Longstaff> | don't get isdn
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| <gordon> | one of the advantages to nailing down the site this early is that we have some breathing space to make good decisions about the details
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| <WarpHoss> | BellSouth has adsl ..
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| <Longstaff> | dsl would work with warp servers over ethernet
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| <Abraxas> | gordon I remember there was a few vendors in Chicago that could have used better than ISDN (assuming the ISDN in CHI had worked) for their demos/presentations/projects
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| <TS2> | gordon: Experence says, what ever you can get will be to slow. Every bit of bandwidth *will* be put to use.
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| <WarpHoss> | TS2: agree wholeheartedly.
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| <WarpHoss> | A bottleneck is exactly what we do not need.
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| <gordon> | i know where you're coming from on that longstaff. we've found that configuration makes a big difference
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| <Ratti> | plus, we'd like to run cu-seeme or something similar. need lotsa bandwidth...
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| <Abraxas> | As far as we (VOICE) is concerned, our needs would be met with ISDN .... but I can't speak for others
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| <gordon> | we have a dual channel 64/64 isdn at work. when we put some meters on it we found that we were actually getting more like 56/14 simply because of configuration
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| <Longstaff> | abraxas - i've done this number with clients....ISDN only looks good on a spec sheet - a roomful of pHDs can't make it work after two weeks hacking most of the time
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| <gordon> | in any case T1 can be connected at a cost that isn't out of the question
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| <M_OKeefe> | Thanx for the participation, everyone. Heres to a successful event! let's take another couple of bricks out of the MS foundation!!
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| <Swordedge> | The decision on what type of line to get may have to wait on vendor support and knowledge of money supply.
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| <gordon> | thanx mike.
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| <TS2> | Thank you M_OKeefe. See you soon.
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| <WarpHoss> | M_Okeefe: Agreed.
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| <M_OKeefe> | Bye all
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