SPAM-LOW: IBM contact

[David Mayerlen]

> >
> > We (Upstart) just dug up that info for another project.
> >
> how was the digging ?
>  and was it an open source project ?

 Its not a software project as much as a media/entertainment project that
will have a mandate to utilize innovative Canadian art/tech/biz but the
core of it all will be journalism.

>
> > We hope to be
> >discussing things with the folks at IBM in the next couple of weeks. I
> >must apologize as I'm signed up for a few too many techi-lists and kinda
> >missed the the full story about linuxcaffe.
> >
> ah, the continuing saga of..
>
> > Is there a biz-plan or
> >
> >
> yes
>
> >description or something that I could refer to
> >
> well, for the moment, visit linuxcaffe.com, but let me warn you, the
> site will be undergoing some serious style and CMS transformations in
> the very near future. Both the physical space and the back-end are
> coming together nicely !
>
> > or perhaps pass to them?
> >

 In order to get them to take a look at linuxcaffe.com there needs to be a
biz-plan of sorts. The website itself is nice but these folks need the
old-fashioned biz-plan to mull over.

> Thanks, but I'd kinda like to do that myself ;)
> good luck with your meeting !

 If you don't have a biz plan or whatever I'll just have to make a point
of dropping by to have a chat or something and learn more. I can't tell
from the website if this is a one-off or if there are plans to roll one out
in every city or if its a non-profit thing or ??? I'm going to need to give
them something to tease them into wanting to give you a call and take it
further.

 Here's an unrelated question. From a software point of view will the
focus of linxcaffe be on open source software only? While Upstart are
totally into the open source thing we do have a very cool commercial
product that we have developed over the last few years here in Toronto ...
but I'm sensing a bit of open source or die mentality from what I see on
the website so I dare not mention it.

> djp
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