I also don't know anything about ILUG despite having maintained a booth at every Go-Linux conference there's been, but what exactly is wrong with P&C running professional forums for Linux corporate users, or other "clubs" in other areas.
Some of the clubs are exclusive. So what? They're tailored for specific audiences. A CFO isn't likely to go to a Linux hackers meeting to learn some new technique for a adapting some obscure graphic card to Linux, and a Linux hacker isn't likely to go to a CFO meeting to discuss which accounting methods is best used to determine the cost-benefits of managing Linux vs. Unix in an enterprise-scale environment. The corporate environment isn't the same as the enthusiast environment, and many times groups/organizations are created for the sole and simple purpose of letting other corporations know that they are in the game. That is how the corporate market works. Stephen Leavitt סטיבן לויט Sales Director מנהל מכירות MainStream Solutions, Ltd. www.mainstream.co.il Tel: ++[972] - 2 - 561-2262 Fax: ++[972] - 3 - 725-6036 Cell: ++[972] - 52 - 277-6374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ira Abramov Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:30 PM To: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Go-Linux 2005 Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 20 Oct: > > > I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for > > > Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). > > > > No, ILUG, Israeli Linux User Group. No relation to IGLU or Hamakor > > or anything else that is community oriented. > > > I have to admit that I found that confusing explanation quite...confusing. P&C have all sorts of "clubs" they organize to make the invited people feel "exclusive". http://www.itclubs.co.il/ The Linux Users' group is a similar initiative (though if memory serves it's less tightly affiliated with P&C, it's a joint marketing gimmick of Sun, SGI, IBM, Emet and a few others where the "users" in the title actually means "companies that try to make a few more thousand dollars by waving a tux flag". In fact, AFAIK the only member of the community that ever witnessed one of their meetings (were there more than one?) Is Shachar Shemesh, and the only thing I think that came out of it was that Logo you saw that is pulled once a year, dusted and pasted on the Go Linux invitation. -- Fresh off the boat Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= 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] ================================================================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]
