[sorry for cross-listing; it's important for both of the lists] Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > Did I miss something, or was this conference > http://www.pc.co.il/linux/desktop > being kept as a secret from this mailing list? > > Now that we heard about it, can we learn some more?
It was "kept as a secret", because nothing is going to happen on that date. Now to the details: As you probably know, there are "KAHATs" (Interesting Groups) organized by People&Computers, about Linux. I was appointed to maintain the Desktop and Hebrew KAHATs, no clue why. Zvi Bruner and Uri Leibovitch maintain the "Tashtiot" KAHAT (infrastructure). "My" KAHAT was planned for the 1st half day of Dec. 18, while "their" KAHAT was planned for the 1st half of Jan. 8. The 2 biggest computer companies, as all of you know, are IBM and HP. Both of them have about 1 Linux event in a year (in average). After People&Computers published the dates Dec. 18 and Jan. 8, these companies published the dates of THEIR Linux events; No, you were not wrong: the 1st half of Dec. 18 (IBM), and the 1st half of Jan. 8 (HP). Coincidence? Well, after counting the days in a year, and excluding the Saturdays, Fridays, holidays, etc., and multiplying the result by 2 (because there are 2 half days in a day), you get the number 448. The chance that the 2 biggest IT companies will have their Linux events exactly on the same half days that these 2 KAHATs take place, is 1 to 200,000 (448^2). So the TASHTIOT was postponed to Feb. 10. And then to Feb. 15. Until next date... So now, that Jan. 8 was emptied, "my" KAHAT was set to that date... If it was not tragic, I could laugh... So it will not be Jan. 8. And not any other date, even if it is published, as long as I don't get the confirmation of the lecturers. P.S. The original date of HP was not Jan. 8, but Dec. 10, and it was postponed because... ..Gartner set its own conference to the same date... Unbelievable! -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= 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]
