Eli Marmor wrote: >Except for these narrow minded fixes, I agree. > > I've kept my mouth shut so far, because although the *facts* of the criticism were incorrect, as you well pointed out, the conclusion was not.
The interest groups were to the point and non-marketirish, but they died. I tried to organize a second one, and nobody within P&C would bother. As we have Haifux, Telux, JLC and the rest, I didn't bother too much myself. I couldn't help but notice that your interest group didn't conveen in the past year too. Ilan from Oracle, while being a great guy, and doing this Linux activity for all the right reasons, is still a marketing guy. I think the fact that Go-Linux 2004 was so lame, and that Go-Linux 2005 was postponed no less than 4 times already (and I fully expect a fifth) has something to do with the fact that Go-Linux 2003 was NOT just a marketing thing, but something with actual substance, and that P&C know that, they would like to repeat that, *but they don't know how*. Some of the sponsors didn't like the way they were pushed aside for less important (and non-paying) things, and the result is a bit of a mess. Ilan tried to get Go-Linux 2005 to be a client oriented thing, something that is like a marketing conference with sponsors and everything, but would actually have CONTENT and be INTERESTING. He tried to dictate to the sponsors that they should all bring one of their clients on stage, rather than attempt to talk themselves. From the lack of a Go-Linux conference in August you can infer how successful that was. I have not heared from them since, despite trying a couple of times. No one there wants me to talk to sponsors (and they may be right, after all). Judging from the amount of preperations done for Go-Linux 2004 and Go-Linux 2003, I predict that should Go-Linux 2005 take place in November (as currently indicated), it will not have more substance than the 2004 version. Shachar P.S. For the 2004 conference, I was asked to give a lecture. The problem was that I wanted my lecture to be right for the audience. I thought the result was anemic and lacked real substance. On the other hand, most of the feedbacks I received were very positive. I guess it's all relative. Sh. -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= 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]
