Bribe PCQ!

[Nick Hill <nikhilwiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know the subject is a little on the interesting side, expect
no less. For those who do no know, I am the Co-ordinator/Treasurer 
of ILUG-HYD. Here's the story:

PCQ is the conducting its normal course of a "Cyber Expo" in our
city - Hyderabad. Its on the 16,17, and 18th of this month, Feb.
We were thankfully given a stall, the last time this show was 
conducted, last year. We were lucky (?) to be chosen the best
stall among the big wigs like Intel, and Satyam on the stage. 
I think this was the time, when PCQ decided that a stall will
be given as a humble gesture from PCQ, to the local LUG. Our
moderator has confirmed this from Atul. This is in no relation
to what's been going on here, but Atul did a fine job in getting
us a stall last time. Suresh played his part too. All's well
till there.

Enter 2001. This time PCQ holds a Cyber Expo, our LUG asks for a
stall. We repeatedly contact kkkg@xxxxxxxx for info regarding us
getting hold of a good stall at the PCQ Cyber Expo, but all our
efforts just lie in plain ol' vain. bah. The local "Event Manager"
fer the PCQ guyz starts playing games with us. The First time we
approach him, he demands that we get a sponsorer along with us, and
we get a stall only on the condition that the sponsorer takes 
another stall. After a few days (our "Manager" musta got despo around
this time), our moderator approaches him again, as kkkg@xxxxxxxx 
doesn't decide to give us a reply, this "Manager" of PCQ's, asks us
to pay up Rs. 5000, if we need the stall. And, btw, did i miss out
on telling u that we're gonna get a stall on the outside of the actual
venue? 

As a LUG, we do not have any commercial interest in setting up
the stall. We mostly a bunch of students, and some esteemed professors,
(and yeah, we've got a few MBAs who've got nothing better to do ;> psst..
read Suresh here ;P), who're trying to put up something on the lines of
the LI stall at IT.com. We've done it successfully the last time, and
it was recieved extremely well by the city here. I hate to spread the
awareness for NIIT, and SSI to bundle up their money bags, but I love
Linux, and yeah... then there's "World Domination" thingy up our sleeve
too.

I being a student and all, didn't have the guts to bully this guy out,
and the best I could do was post this here. I doubt this is OT. I hope
this generates the response I anticipated, and I really do hope we
manage to get the stall ASAP, before its too late. 

I thank every one of u to spare some time passing a few bytes under u're
poer eyes, and I hope u can do something to help me and my LUG out. 

thanx a bunch!

Nikhil.


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