People n' computers "interest groups" - meeting summary

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

Yesturday wev'e been to the "People n' Computers" thingy. From "Hamakor" Doron and myself arrived, and from this list Eli Marmor was also there.

My understanding of this "Interest Groups" is not 100% firm. Apparently they have formulated very solid interest groups for Java, and are seeking to repeat the success. They are trying to create such interest groups for Linux, and want to announce them somewhere at the begining of March.

The idea behind these groups, as far as I could understand it, is that you organize meetings open to all, and intended to all, in those areas. The content and activity of said group is pretty much up to the group moderator/organizer. There don't SEEM to be too big a direct commercial influence, but as for that only time will tell.

My memory is a little hazy, so you'll forgive me for any inaccuracies. I will get the email summarizing the meeting, hopefully today, and I'll send any amendments, if necessary. The most importnat thing to note is this. This is probably no place for "delegators". The next meeting will be on Jan 27th. Anyone who is interested in affecting/becoming a moderator, will please reserve the date (it ought to be around 16:00, probably Dan Panorama).

During the meeting, aside from me trying to get an idea what these interest groups actually are, a few interest groups were selected. Those I remeber are (there was about one more, I think):
Linux for businesses
Linux Infrastructures
Programming (I'm the moderator)
Hebrew (Eli is the moderator).

In addition to those, the "Linux for education" interest group is looking for a moderator, and the "Linux security" is currently inside the "Linux for businesses", but I said I can think of someone who will be more than willing to moderate that. As that someone is on the list, I am hereby giving equal opertunity to ANYONE who wants to moderate that to step forward.

The moderators need to push the forum. They are not the sole responisble for the contents in the forum, but they are should consider themselves the initiators and pushers (if you'll excuse my furthering of the drugs world analogies, already in abundance in the computer world.

One more thing that Peli (People'n computers editor) said is that they are looking for good articles IN HEBREW on the subject of Linux and open source (though you can write about free software - they won't tell the difference).

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
"Hamakor" board member (http://www.hamakor.org.il)



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