On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > 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.
As I was also on the meeting and I am also on this list so let me add my 2 more cents here. > > My understanding of this "Interest Groups" is not 100% firm. To get a bit more insight on the Java Interest Groups "kahatim" you can go to their home page at http://www.ijug.org.il/ . My understanding is that while iglu and the other mailing lists are continous and money less communication channels, with small meetings at some frequency the Interest groups are just meetings 2-6 times a year (perg group). To describe it in another way, iglu and co. are more like peer-to-peer networks while the Interest Groups IMHO are more like "few to many" communication channels. IMHO - but I did not participate in the Java effort I only went to the second I.JUG conference - they, the interest groups don't have working mailing list or forum with continous communication like this mailing list. To put it another way. There are some big players in the field that would like to tell the market how good Linux/Open Source/FSF (I think they don't care at this point) is and how much they support it. They are also willing to put money on it to create these communication channels. The question is who fills these channels by content ? The corporations (because they payed the money) or the IGLU (and co.) members who have a lot to say about how to use Linux. I belive the corporations would want to get the content we can create as this will make the meetings bigger and more interesting for the general public (or at least I think they think so. Hmm. Whatever I wanted to say by that). regards Gabor Where did my camel go today ? ================================================================= 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]
