On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:51:45 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> People and Computers ("Anashim Ve'Machshevim") are organizing an
> Israeli Linux conference, to take place probably in January. They are
> interested in forming a steering committe, composed amongst others of
> community members, to talk about the conference and about Linux in
> Israel in general.
>
> As a precursor to the conference, there will be a panel ("rav-siah")
> next week, on Wednesday, Nov. 20th, at 15:30, in Dan Panorama, Tel
> Aviv. People who want to attend and take part in the discussion are
> requested to contact Raphael Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, editor of
> PC-Plus, at 054-642456. The panel will last approximately an hour and
> a half, and Information Week will publish an issue dedicated to it, if
> I understood correctly.
>
> You can find a list of suggested subjects and a potential flier for
> the conference at http://www.mulix.org/conf/ . The conference is about
> "Linux in the Enterprise", and the subject list is still open, so feel
> free to make suggestions.
I want to tell you my experience on the subject. I read an ad about
this conference (Go-linux 03 22/1/03) and I contact them, offering
to give a lecture (I intended to speak on some of the problems and
solutions of migrating a legacy system to Linux, from our company
experience). They replied by suggesting I (or my company) pay $4000
for the this "pleasure". Since I work for an Insurance agency (the
biggest in Israel) and we don't sell software or hardware (although
we did some software projects) we don't have any interest in paying.
After telling them that we would not pay, they lost all interest.
They never asked me any details about my proposed lecture or my
experience/knowledge with linux (and I don't think I'll here from
them on this subject).
So, don't put too much hope on this conference. It will be another
"sell" oriented meeting where every lectures MUST sell something to
justify the lumpy sum the company pays for this privilege.
Ehud.
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