From: Rahul Dave <rahul@reno.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: ExtremeLinux Track at the LinuxExpo: announcement/call for sponsors  
To: extreme-linux@acl.lanl.gov
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:38:21 -0500 (EST)


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	ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP
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   1st Annual ExtremeLinux Track at the 5th Annual LinuxExpo 1999

    	18'th May, 1999 TO 22'nd May, 1999 at 
     	Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina

Primary Extreme Linux Expo Track Site: 	http://reno.cis.upenn.edu/extreme 
Main Extreme Linux Website: 		http://www.extremelinux.org 
Main Expo Website: 			http://www.linuxexpo.org 
LinuxExpo Registration:			https://www.linuxexpo.org/register.html

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	     The purpose of this track, organized by some members of the
	     ExtremeLinux mailing list is ExtremeLinux and Beowulf as
	     pertains to the following:

	     (1) Introducing cluster creation and programming to the
	     wider community of Linux users and programmers.  (2) To
	     serve as a platform for introducing and furthering the
	     adoption of ExtremeLinux and Beowulf amongst businesses
	     and other non scientific users, and to be a platform for
	     showcasing scientific and non-scientific applications (3)
	     To have talks on the "Linux" aspects of ExtremeLinux, talks
	     that would be interesting to the linux user and programmer
	     community at large, for example, kernel programming like
	     filesystems, system administration, etc.  (4) To stimulate
	     collaborations amongst Beowulf and other programmers, and
	     conversations amongst kernel developers and high performance
	     application programmers.

	     The program will consist of a highlighted speaker
	     , a technical track , tutorials , and a BOF session
	     . ExtremeLinux will have its own booth , very kindly provided
	     by the the Linux Expo organizers. Posters, Live demonstrations
	     and cluster building at this booth and other ExtremeLinux
	     related booths will be part of the program.

	     The tutorial sessions will cost $35 to attend-- REGISTER
	     NOW! at https://www.linuxexpo.org/register.html 
	     for the tutorials.
	     
	     The Technical program,
	     highlighted speaker, and BOF will be free (but require
	     you to register for the "Conference" part of the Expo,
	     of-course) and weaved in with the rest of the Expo technical
	     program. (Note that these tutorials are not part of the
	     regular Expo tutorials, and you must register specifically
	     for them, and you can register only for them.)

	     More details about the entire program are at
	     	http://reno.cis.upenn.edu/extreme/

	     which can be reached from the ExtremeLinux home page at
	        http://www.extremelinux.org

You can contact the organizers at:
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Robert Brown (rgb@phy.duke.edu) 
Phone: 919.660.2567 

Rahul Dave (rahul@reno.cis.upenn.edu) 
Phone: 215.573.8264 

Douglas Eadline (deadline@plogic.com) 
Phone: 610.861.6960 

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	WE NEED SPONSORS!
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Robert Brown posted earlier to these mailing lists a call for sponsorship.
We have now made formal arrangements with the Linux Expo organizers
and you could think of this as a more formal call for sponsorship...

Any amount of sponsorship money or loaner hardware is welcome. All sponsors
will be acknowledged by a banner panel and blurb at the Extreme Linux booth.
Additionally, your company can distribute its literature at the ExtremeLinux
booth .

In addition, there are two premium levels of sponsorship:

For $1000 you can support an Extreme Linux Tutorial Speaker:

*A representative from your company introduces a speaker
*Opportunity to hang your company banner behind the speaker
*Your company's name in the program, associated with the speaker level
sponsorship.

For $3000 you can sponsor the ExtremeLinux Highlighted Speaker:

*Your company's name in the program, associated with the Highlighted
Speaker
*A representative from your company introduces the speaker
*Opportunity to hang your company banner behind speaker  

If you would like to be a sponsor, please contact:

	*Robert Brown (rgb@phy.duke.edu)
	Phone: 919.660.2567
	*Stacy Doster (stacy@linuxexpo.org)
	Phone: 919.942.3318