Happening

[Michalis Kabrianis]

Pros enimerwsi sas:
Steilame to akoloutho stous: RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Caldera:

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Dear Sirs,
we happily inform you that HELLUG (Hellenic Linux Users Group) was
founded recently.

We are planning to make a happening  - gathering during Christmas
holidays, in order to promote Linux, having a kiosk, and giving Linux t-shirts,
Linux CDs, leaflets and whatever material we might think of, in the main
commercial street of Athens for Computers and computer-staff, Stournari str.

You should know that Hellug currently has slightly less than 200 members, as
it is quite "new", but over 1500 copies of RedHat Linux (version 5 and 5.1)
alone have been sold in Athens, in 1998

Any promotion material, as the ones mentioned above, that you could possibly
sent us, would be grately appreciated... You can contact the board of hellug,
in the address hellug-ds at mk.aua.gr

Thank you in advance...

Chairman of Hellug

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Para to oti ta Agglika mou einai psiloaparadekta, exoun arxisei idi na mas
apantane:

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:07:56 -0600
From: Wilson Lee <wilsonl at caldera.com>
To: mkabrian at acropolis.net
Subject: HELLUG
Cc: hellug-ds at mk.aua.gr, mkab at forthnet.gr

Michalis, hello and thanks for contacting Caldera Systems regarding the
aforementioned opportunity.  Caldera Systems would be glad to send some
promotional materials for the event.  We would even like to promote the
event on our website.  If you have details of the event (time, place,
location(s), description of event, title, and logo), Caldera would like
to place it online.

Please provide a shipping address to send promotional materials to and
an estimate of how many will be attending.  Again, thanks for
considering Caldera Systems in this event and I look forward to hearing
from you soon.


Wilson Lee
Caldera Systems

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Kai bebaia, enw perimenoyme apo allous na mas apantisoyn, stelnoume to eksis:

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Wilson, thanks a lot for your responce and support.
Promoting the event through your web site would be great for us, so I send you
all the information we have until now, and some more will follow shortly. We
will also send you photos of the gathering, but this will obviously be
after the happening.

The happening will take place in Stournari str. in Athens, which is the "place
to be" for Computer geeks in Greece, on Saturday ?????th of December 1998 (or
Sunday ????th if it's raining on Saturday). Hellug members will be there
from  10.00 in the morning, until 15.00, when the shops close.
There will be a kiosk with approximately 5-10 members of HELLUG who
will offer CDs and leaflets, as well as information about Linux. We hope we
will be able to get a Santa Claus for that day (one of us dressed up, that is)
There will also be a penguin there (which is a very promising project)....
There are two pages, describing the process of the penguin construction.
They might be greek to you (and in fact they are) but, to make a long
story short, the idea is, that this penguin is hand made (the Linux way)
by paper soaked in water and glue (a environment-friendly/recycled penguin), it
is going to be about 1.40 m height (two pieces, for carrying it with car
without problems). The penguin project is called "Gin Tonic", firstly
because the creators (Voula and Evripidis) like this drink and,
secondly, because everything must have a name. This penguin is going to
be the living proof of the Linux superiority :-)

First page:
http://linux.airtour.gr/grlinux/penguin_construction.html

Second page:
http://linux.airtour.gr/grlinux/penguin_constr2.html

New page to be released this week with news from this effort.
You can take the pictures of the penguin from these pages. 
The happening will also be promoted from the web-server of Hellug
(http://www.hellug.gr) when this web-server is online (by the end of October),
and the main moto will be "Penguins in Greece" (actually, the only place you
may see penguins in Greece would be the zoo, as Greece is a quite sunny
country, so we thought it would cause at least curiosity).

We expect more or less 100 linuxers to come, but the point is that over 2000
people ready to buy hardware/software will be there that day, as it's the
"Christmas-presents-period". So the giveaway of Linux CDs, along with the
informational leaflet we have made (explaining why linux is free) will really
make a point.

The address that you can send your promotional material is

Evripidis Papakostas
10 Roumelis Str.
Agia Paraskevi
15341 Athens
GREECE

which is the official address of our LUG.

I'ld like to thank you once again on behalf of Hellug 

Chairman of Hellug

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Opws blepete, den exoume symplirosei tin imerominia, gia na doume poia mas
bolevei. Perimenoume idees-protaseis, alla an ginetai parakalw simera, gia na
steiloume syntoma to mail kai na prolabei na erthei to diafimistiko yliko

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Michalis Kabrianis
FORTHnet Technical Department
mkab at forthnet.gr
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