Ok, I'll jump on this wagon, I also want sponsorship, I ask for half the amount that Shlomi is asking. I will use the money to buy a sailing yacht and sail around the world, Ok maybe not around the world but at least in the Mediterranean. In return to this generous sponsorship I will put the name of the company on the sails of the yacht. Note that sail areas is around 30 sqr. meters so there is a huge area for a big add. Any takers?
N.B. regard this message a humor (although I would not resist to really get such donation) I already have my own company, however this company's earnings at this point allow me to sponsor a little more then Falafel dish at a Kiosk stand, it still does not allow me to sponsor neither my own yacht nor Shlomi's trip. -- Ori Idan On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > hope you had a great Shabbath by the time you're reading it. > > You're raising some interesting points which I'd like to address, and I > apologise if I weren't clear and explicit before. > > > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson < > geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 7/4/2014 8:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight to Istanbul and then >> taking trains) where I: >> >> >> >> ROTFL. >> >> Not only do I not think this belongs on this list, but it's ridiculous. >> > > Why do you feel it does not belong on this list? Many people here offer > jobs or ask for jobs, and my offer can provide a lot of promotion and > publicity to a company/individual/organisation who wishes to sponsor me. > > Regarding "ridiculous" there is > http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=same-ideas-as-everybody-else > : > > « > > If you have the same ideas as everybody else, but have them one week > earlier than everyone else - then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if > you have them five years earlier, you will be named a lunatic. > > » > > Some of the things I predicted and/or projected are: > > * http://www.advogato.org/article/361.html - world-editable screenplays > for films back in 2001 - I was told it will likely not going to work, but > now there are many screenplay projects which use wiki-style interfaces, and > there quite a many successful world-editable-or-almost-world-editable wikis > out there (e.g: the Wikimedia project, the Wikias, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes ). > > * http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/ - in this story I > describe FOSS (and to a lesser extent open content/culture) geeks, and > especially female geeks, as chic, intelligent, attractive, socially > capable, and sexually assertive, and not only are they mainstream, but they > are the alphas - the constant object of attraction and often jealousy of > their peers. > > Back after I finished writing it in 2004 and publicised it for scrutiny on > the linux-elitists mailing list - > http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/conclusions/#review--modus-operandi > - I was criticised for making it look like being a FOSS/open-culture hacker > was a gateway to popularity, but now it is quite common all around the > world, as exemplified by the success of > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory , and not only are > almost all attractive female attracted to geeks, but most of them are > geeky[Geeky] themselves, *and* yet they are not socially awkward or > sexually inept. > > [Geeky] - see http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=401 for > what is a geek , as well as what Paul Graham wrote about amateurs and > hackers. > > >> >> If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel at a >> stand up kiosk, I would consider this so unreasonable that it's just >> laughable. As I said, IF I were going to fund someone, I might consider a >> plan that includes 2 $1,000 airplane tickets, and about $1,000 a week for >> hotel, food, transportation within each country and train fare to the next >> country, for a week in a country to give 4-5 FOSS lectures, and then move >> on. You probably could start in the Irish Republic and bounce along to the >> Russian Republic which would take around 15-20 weeks. >> > > My lectures are not only about FOSS - they are also about free/open > culture/content, and mix and match other topics such as > love/romance/relationships, action, humour, history, science, amateur > philosophy, etc. See: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ > > Anyway, you are right that I probably overestimated the cost and can > survive on much less. > > Regarding Ireland -> Russia - I'm not interested only in software > development hubs, but in general - every centre of commerce is game for me: > Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, > Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, Riga, Vilnius, Budapest, > Bucharest, etc. etc. > > >> >> Or you could the same thing for about 1.5 times the money in the US, >> which would take an entire year, one week per state. >> > > I'm: > > 1. Not going to .us any time soon. > > 2. Not interested in being 100% comprehensive. > > >> >> But not just for a vacation, or for sponsorship opportunity, you would >> have to show off your operating system that lots of people use, or your >> office suite, Nobel Prize, or Olympic Medal. >> > > I have many stories/screenplays, many aphorisms, quotes, Chuck Norris/etc. > factoids, bits, programs, etc. Many people told me that they recognise my > homepage and especially its EvilPHish emblem (See > http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#evilphish-emblem ) and someone told > me that I also look exactly like he though I would. > > And part of the reason why I'm going on tour is to gain more recognition > and to practice my stand-up-philosophy. > > >> >> No use writing an editor, no one is interested in paying RMS to speak, >> especially since he, as president of the FSF, ex ex *officio* >> <https://www.google.co.il/search?es_sm=122&q=ex+officio&spell=1&sa=X&ei=yFi2U4mZIIK00wXM_IDQDg&ved=0CBkQvwUoAA>, >> announced he was supporting the Palestinian Boycott of Israel. >> >> > I didn't write an editor, but I wrote a lot of other useful software apps: > > * http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/ > > * > http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html > > Quoting from it: > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > How to Achieve World Domination > > A lot of people think that the proper way to achieve world domination is > to create an architecture that will solve the whole world's problems and > then some <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html>. > We've been seeing quite a few of them since *Joel on Software* wrote this > article: Ruby, Google Go, Node.js, Mozilla's Rust, Clojure, Scala, Perl 6, > etc. Some of them have or will mature to something truly nice, or have > inspired a lot of features in other languages, but it's hard for > plain-old-single-you to compete with them, and here is something > interesting: not too many people want them. > > What do people want? Chuck Norris/etc. factoids, lolcats and other > captioned images, funny cat videos, parodies of *My Little Pony: > Friendship is Magic* (♥), photos of attractive (or even not too > attractive) men and women, screencasts of games or other programs > (including many open source programs), photos of scenery, new and improved > recipes for preparing food (and of course - tasty food itself), new, old or > renovated jokes, and some interesting tales and anecdotes from your life. > And naturally - programs that can will scratch an itch - however small. > > Some people told me that my solver for Freecell and other solitaire games, > simply called Freecell Solver <http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/> is > useless, but it's not - it's just a niche program. And I received hundreds > of E-mails about it. Furthermore, given that Freecell is (or used to be) a > big phenomenon in Israel, where many boys and girls starting from 18 found > themselves playing it on the Israeli military > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces> computers out of > boredom, then the fact that I have written a solver for it, has impressed > many people I talked with or met, including some attractive (both > physically and intellectually) young ladies (or what people may refer to as > "hot chicks"), and they ended up asking me about how it was written, and > which algorithms it employed. > > So Freecell Solver was one of my most successful programs, not despite > being a niche program, but because of it. Niche programs own. Not only > that, but niche everything is great. Many people whom I referred to my > stories <http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/stories/> helped themselves to > the screenplay Star Trek: "We, the Living Dead" > <http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/> *because* > it contained Star Trek in the name, and because there are quite a few fans > of the *Star Trek* franchise and worlds. > > The more of a niche artwork you write, the more a large subset of those > who like it, are likely to pay attention to it, try it out, and enjoy it. > For more information, see Eric Sink's excellent and inspiring essay "How > to get people talking about your product" > <http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Buzz.html>. For example, DuckDuckGo > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo> was originally marketed as a > search engine by Perl geeks, and for Perl geeks, and it was a good > marketing decision because the Perl community is small, cohesive and is at > a good strategical position to influence other communities. Now, many > people who are not Perl programmers, are using it, as well as, or even in > preference to Google, but choosing Perl was a good strategical decision. We > can expect that with the future growth of DuckDuckGo, that it will use more > performant technologies than Perl more and more, but it will still owe some > of its initial success to be a Perl product. > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > Regarding RMS - I realise he became a persona non-grata in Israel and > among some pro-Israeli Jews or non-Jews, but: > > 1. He is still a great man and a talented speaker (even if he is a very > quirky fellow - or because of it). > > 2. His decision was acceptable given the circumstance. > > 3. I don't want to hold a grudge against him forever, because > vindictiveness is immature. "To err is human, to forgive divine." - see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin . > > 4. Other people who wrote competing text editors can still be respected if > their editors are successful. As usual with most programs out there, most > programs fail to gain a critical mass, but a minority of them are > successful. Bram Moolenaar is very respected for writing Vim, which became > the Emacs of vi clones, and I Respect the developers of Sublime Text even > though I dislike the fact that it is non-FOSS. Some software niches don't > have a visible dominant alternative, e.g: window managers/desktops. > > ================ > > Thanks again and I hope I clarified everything now. > > Regards, > > -- Shlomi Fish > > > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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