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>Louis wrote: >>>I may have missed it in the flood of emails lately, but I do not >>>recall seeing any public thanks or recognition (on this list or the >>>events list) of the work I and others did on the OOoRegiCon, except >>>from the other people who attended and worked at the booth. >> >>Well thanks. >> >>I was incommunicado for nearly all of last week in India, at another >>conference... > >I appreciate that you have been busy, and that's it's difficult to >find time for everything (I certainly have that problem a lot). But it >does seem to me that *someone* high up at Marketing (Jacqueline, >perhaps, if not you?) could have dashed off a sentence or two to this >list, and/or the Events list, immediately after the RegiCon -- saying, >essentially "Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard before and >during RegiCon to make it a success!" Would that have taken so long? Actually, for what it was worth, I had minimal internet connectivity while in India, and for several days, none. I was literally not figuratively mostly incommunicado. >>... but would like to post a summary of DLS as soon as you can get me >>one. I'm also working on the LinuxAsia conferece summary and am keen >>to post thanks and summaries of Boston LWE. > >It's good to have a more permanent record, but *immediate* positive >feedback is vitally important in a volunteer project. It's so easy to >help people feel appreciated, and equally easy to leave the impression >that they are being taken for granted, even if that is not true. > >Regards, Jean > I do tend to think that we take many of the people in this Project (overall) for granted; that's why I am always asking people for interviews. (At the moment I have half a dozen pending.) Direct thanks also work, of course: So, I'd like to thank first and foremost, Jacqueline McNally, the Marketing Project Lead, for doing an amazing amount of work organizing the DLS from the beginning on, way back in November. In addition to doing much of the organizing and negotiating with Lindows, she also substantially managed the CFP, read all of the submissions, edited, and drew up the program. Erwin helped out, as did I, but both our work does not hold a candle to that done by Jacqueline; or at least mine doesn't. And this is all the more remarkable because Jacqueline lives in Australia and this was a US event. (Jean too lives in Australia.) I'd also like to thank everyone else who worked on making the RegiCon a success. I regret if my own circumstances made it impossible for me to thank you all immediately after the event, let alone attend, or evenn read about it until long after the fact, but you have my belated thanks. From what I have been able to gather, it was a great show and we should have more of them. But I'd also repeate my request for a summary account of the RegiCon. Having slides is one thing but a succinct account of the event, etc., allows us to put it in the newsletter, and that goes out to tens of thousands. cheers louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
