On Saturday 23 Aug 2014 12:01:35 PM aag wrote: > On 11 August 2014 15:29, Pirate Praveen <prav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Today, I prefer to work with a system that 'just works' & I can > > > > concentrate on > > > > > utilising Open Source Licensed tool chains and applications to do my > > > > work. > > > > It would be nice if you can come up with a list of things that don't > > work for you. It would help us to fix those issues for everyone. > > Apologies for jumping in late on this discussion. I have been in the same > boat a couple of times. Luckily, it was relatively easy for me to migrate > to a machine made available by the organisers. > I use a Macbook with OSX and do all my development in a headless Ubuntu > Virtualbox VM. I have to use OSX because I need to use GotoMeeting, Skype > group video and on really bad days - MS Office. > With things like virtualisation, the lines become really blur. How far do > we take these appearances? Is it more important than good quality talks and > demos? Is it ok to waste 40 minutes of everyone in the audience while the > speaker scrambles to put a free software facade? > Important questions for organisers to think about for future conferences. > > -aag > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
Perhaps people (organizers) can let the person with a mandatory preamble before that talk. Preamble of the sort, though it is Microsoft it is a "Free Core Font", types...! Walk on this road is recommended at your own risk... _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
