[PLUG] Red Hat Road Tour coming to Portland

[Don Buchholz]

... actually, when gatherings are sufficiently large, I find
the opportunity to break down into smaller groups (table-sized
clusters), and drift from table to table until one finds a
comfortable group/topic to settle down a good environment.

Does anyone know what format RedHat uses for these events?

- Don

Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Monday 14 October 2002 17:27, Paul Nelson wrote:
> 
>>Should I have put free beer in the subject?  ;-^)
>>
>>Red Hat's new bright red motor home is crossing the country and will be
>>stopping here in Portland for the weekend of Nov. 15 - 18. So far we've
>>planned for them to join us for a Linux Clinic on Saturday the 16th.
>>http://www.idg.net/ic_956369_1794_9-10000.html
>>
>>We want to have an evening for grownups too though. The goal is to find
>>a place where we can have a round table discussion mixed liberally with
>>beverages for Saturday night on the 16th.
>>
>>So the question, who knows of a HUGE pub that can devote the space to a
>>group that wants to eat and drink and round table? We'd need to be able
>>to do all three. As far as numbers think 200 or so.
> 
> 
> Is this going to be yet another Survival of the Loudest, or will people who 
> are not pushy and obnoxious get a chance to get a word in? Quiet people with 
> manners often know one or two things worthy of sharing. I'd like to support 
> the event, but not if it's another typical geekfest where the annoying ones 
> dominate.
>