["Craig Flannagan" <craigfla at microsoft.com>] Microsoft Canada would like to visit your user group

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> Jing Su wrote:
> >>If you ask me, let's invite them if we have no other topic planned. It's
> >>not every day you get a free seminar from Microsoft. Besides, from what
> >>I understand they are offering to buy us pizza.
> > 
> > 
> >>>Topics for our meeting could include:
> >>>
> >>>*	Application Security: Tools for Authenticating and Authorizing
> >>>Users
> >>>*	Building Web Applications with ASP.NET
> >>>*	64-Bit Computing and the Future of Microsoft Technologies
> > 
> > 
> > I second the motion to invite him if we have no other compelling speaker
> > for the next TLUG meeting.
> > 
> > I also second the motion to have him buy beer with the pizza. :)
> > 
> > However, if possible, I'd like to (additionally) hear M$ talk about
> > Palladium, on a more technical level.  I'm tempted to say we "boo" the
> > speaker whenever he diverts down the path of Marketing-speak.  But that's
> > very rude.  Anyone have a better and more polite way of letting them know
> > we're not interested in their sales pitch?
> 
> 
> Well, I was going to suggest that we'd coordinate the hecklers to do 
> their thing at the appropriate times, but then I realized that would be 
> akin to herding cats.  ;-)

The thought came to mind that we could keep some "usual suspects" seated
somewhere appropriate, and threaten to take the duct tape off one every
time the speaker heads down the wrong path...
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