Proposed Conference

Proposed Conference for Open Source in Business in Bristol 2007

Goals

• Get more customers.
• Convince business that open source is a viable alternative both on the desktop and in the server room.
• LTSP as a desktop solution.
• LAMP as a server solution.
• Asterisk as a telephony solution.

What we need

• Testimonies from public/private sector industries.
• Testimonies from Enterprise users.
• Speakers from IBM/HP RedHat/Enterprise.
• Speakers from Bristol City Council (StarOffice deployment?).

Venue

• We need a prestigious venue NOT the Cube/Trinity or Community Centres.
• ??? Watershed Perhaps ????

People to get on board

• Business West
• Connecting Bristol/South West
• SWRDA
• BCC
• Some influential civil servant types
• People from BBLUG list who work in public sector, e.g. University / Govt Agencies

Kit we will need at event

• LTSP server and clients (not the bricks).
• Asterisk server and phones of various descriptions.
• LAMP server (Drupal/CiviCRM)
• Projectors
• Professional looking copies of the OpenCD to give away

Running Order

• What is Open Source
• Who is using Open Source
• Why * * *
• Linux on the Desktop
• OpenOffice
• Gimp/Inkscape/Scribus
• Firefox – and other OS apps that run on Windows
• LAMP
• CRM's
• Asterisk + SIP
• Conclusion