actually reserved Fountain Square Ballroom downtown for the evening of
the 25th from 5pm - 9pm for a 6-8 event. It will be called the "root
party". Hopefully we'll get other events like this going around the
world.
Does anyone on the list do any DJing and have a sound system? Or know
someone who does and could do the party for free? This would be a good
chance to practice or promote yourself.
Would anyone be interested in giving a high impact 20-30 minute
presentation on the history of Unix? Basically, something goody feely
that opens people's eyes to how much its actually used. I can provide a
projector and screen.
I could also use a little help on the evening of the event. Maybe one or
two more people to help with picking up food. Also, I was thinking to
stream the event over justin.tv or something similar that does
multicasting.
If anyone knows how to make a cool javascript clock or something for
the website that will count down to the moment of the switchover, I'd be
interested in getting your help. Its likely that this would be used
worldwide for all the parties count down as it was also done for the
1234567890 epoch second parties. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85EnRLs4ilY
Bloomington Geek Dinners has also expressed interest in having their
event at the party too so that will probably bring in 30 more people as
that's what their usual attendance is. I've had people write me about
promoting the event beyond Bloomington and I almost have a website
ready. I think this could end up being a worldwide event with parties
all over the place.
The overall idea of the event is to bring all people in the tech
community together to celebrate the longevity of the Unix and open way
in computing. I was also thinking of giving the party a theme like
"Dress like the past because Unix is the future" would make it more
interesting and get more people into it.
--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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