On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:57, Aviram Jenik wrote: > Have there been any previous announcement that I've missed? What is this > Linux Business Forum? Has it been discussed anywhere? What's it about? > What is its purpose? Who will be attending? > > If I'm the only one who doesn't have that info (that *is* possible; the > S/N in this list has been catastrophic in the last week and I might have > missed some posts) than I deserve to be "punished". But if not, don't > you think it makes sense to post more than a cryptic e-mail with link to > the same message on the web?
Yes, you did miss it: Shlomi posted the invetation to the previous meeting where this was announced on this list. This was just a reminder. At any rate, this is what it is - it's a forum that's Sun, Oracle, People & Computers, IBM and a few other prominenet businesses and big orgs are trying to organise. They had already one "get to know" meeting which I and a couple of others (Shlomi of course who got us there, Shachar, Doron attanded as representatives of "the community". They basically want to create a Linux Users Group which is sponsored and geared to businesses, same as similar forums pretaining to Java and Oracle. It seems that Linux is the new hype right now and they are all trying to get on the bandwagon :-) They mean very well, I presume, although sometimes they cluelessness can be ... well, amusing. For example, during the first meeting I had to try convince a Sun(!) representative to send the memos of the meeting in Sun's OpenOffice format (or some other open format format at least) rather then Microsoft's propritery format. In the end he sent it as both MS crap and text, but not in the format his own company sponsors... go figure. A less amusing example is that People & Computers registered the emails of all people attended (collected in order to be able to cordinate the next meeting) to a spam mailing list they run. Luckily, Doron Ofek (who also attanted) has talked with P&C and convinced them that for the better of the cause they will NOT get the personal details of people who wish to join this thing but rather they will be kept by Hamakor and we will provide only aggregate statistics (how much regsitered etc) and an *opt-in* mailing list to those who are interesting in recieving such annoucements. On the plus side, Sun has decided to contribute an addtional server for Linux stuff in Israel, which will aleviate the lack of space on the current IGLU server and hopefully could also be used to allow non profit Linux sites like whatsup or the Penguin (if they are interested of course!) to be hosted there free of charge. So, I think it's doubly important that clueless people here will show up and contrinute. I think you and BeyondSecurity has a LOT to offer the forum.. In fact, how about youy taking on leading the Linux security forum or some such? it's just a suggwestion, but I rather you do it then someone from a company who claims their software is "unbreakable" :-) Gilad. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
