[olug] Linux sponsored Indy Car project

[Jon Larsen]

The Indy 500 is viewed all over the world.  This is an international
crowd, I think money is better spent on an international crowd rather than
Nascar.  I believe the Daytona 500 is broadcast internationally, but not 
many of the other races.  Costs for Nascar sponsor placement is extremely 
high, and for what you get you may only see it in a pit stop due to it's 
size (small square)

Linux has been in use by many racing teams for years, a good portion of 
which is in the CFD realm.  Here is an article regarding Williams F1's
cluster (from 2003) 
<http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/14/1613211>

Similar article for Renault F1 (2005 & 2006 f1 world constructor 
champions)
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2126971/linux-revs-renault-f1-testing>

Jon L.

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Ryan Stille wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:27:04 -0500
> From: Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Linux sponsored Indy Car project
> 
> Eric P wrote:
> > Dave Thacker wrote:
> >   
> >> There a group attempting to raise funds for sponsorship of a car in the 
> >> Indianapolis 500.   Details are at http://tux500.com/geeklog/
> >>
> >> DT
> >>     
> >
> > Please tell me $350,000 can't be better leveraged for the good of Linux than this.
> >
> > Eric
> >   
> No doubt, why not NASCAR instead?
> 
> -Ryan
> 
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