I think it is a great idea, and an event I would like to take part in. In
my opinion, if we take the trouble to organize an event, let it be an
event we want to take part in, before we organize something for
hypothetical "others" who will need to be tempted to come for promotion
reasons.
In other words, let us learn and have fun before we become missioners.
On 27 May 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:19, Karasik, Vitaly wrote:
>
> > I would like to ask if someone knows about up-coming "YOM IYOON"
> > regardingLinux, and specially Linux in Israel, Linux in desktop,
> > etc...
> > [ rant about hostile media deleted ]
> > So, is there? if not - is there some company who think it can arrange
> > something like this? (IBM? Sun? others?)
>
> Why wait for a company? Let's do it ourselves. Remember that film about
> Linux ("Revoloution OS") we discussed the other day?
>
> Well, I made some queries and we can get the Cinematec small theather
> for 2 hours on some Friday for 2,000NIS. Probably can get it for 3 hours
> for 2,500NIS or less if we want to.
>
> The movie screening rights (one time for Linux freaks) is 400$ ~
> 2000NIS.
>
> Which means we already got a place and 1 interesting activity.
>
> So, let's add two or three intresting talks and call it Yom Iyoon.
>
> Whomever covers the theater costs gets to be called "Official Sponser"
> and the right to present a talk about his favorite marketing
> hype^H^H^H^H^H^Hinteresting subject.
>
> Whomevers covers the costs of the movie screening gets to be called
> "Official Sponser" and the right to shoiwer marketing maetrials on all
> participants.
>
> Compaq/Ligad, Aduva and Eli Marmor gets first refusal rights for the
> above rolls thanks to their previous generous donations to IGLU
> activities. Anyone else who contrinuted something and I've missed gets
> the same right as long as he or she promises not to open a long thread
> about it on linux-il...;-)
>
> Actcom get to be "official ISP" and have a booth at the place because
> they finance the IGLU server and mirrors and because I like them ;-)
>
> Which leaves us in need for two intersting talks (assuming one will be
> presented by one of the official sponsors)
>
> Personally, I would very much like these to to be highly technical
> discussions.
>
> Maybe the IBM team that did the OpenOffice Hebrewivisation can present a
> talk about the technical challanges and solution of this?
>
> Comments? anyone here interested or am I the only mad man here? ;-)
>
>
> >I think the timing now is important since MS is going to change their
> > license
> > to MS License version 6, and by switching some of the servers/services
> > to
> > Linux could save lots of money tocompanies and can encourage
> >companies to
> > test/adopt/deploy Linux..
>
> <sigh> When will you stop seeing everything through the narrow view of
> 'beating MS'? Who cares? they are simply irrelvent. We like Linux, which
> mean we'll enjoying organiing a day talking about Linux, why do we need
> anything more?
>
>
> Gilad.
>
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> Code mangler, senior coffee drinker and VP SIGSEGV
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>
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