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| DATE | 2003-10-30 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] RE: GNOME Conference Plans
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Dear Mike
I got your voice mail this evening, and Steve Milo has also gotten it.
I can hear they stress in your voice and I can understand that your somewhat
fustrated in helping us out. I want to say that I really apreciate all you've
done for this conference, and everyone at Brooklyn College has been wonderful.
I'm sorry for any confusion which has been caused. It's been my fault for not
being more available for everyone as their schedules can make it.
As you might know, I'm not a paid employee of GNOME, CUNY or NYLXS, but a
volutneer. I give a lot of time for community projects, not just this one,
but many others. But in addition to my work as a programmer and Sys Admin,
I'm also a Pharmacist, and in this economy I've needed to do a lot of Pharmacy
work to feed my family. When I work in the Pharmacy, and I float from one
Eckerd Pharmacy to the next every day, I'm completely out of touch. I'm
very sorry about that.
The original plan with Brooklyn College was to set up in SUBO and
the Library, with SUBO being used Saturday and Monday, and the Library
being used on Saturday. However, SUBO has been waiting for the go ahead from
IT for the event, and Nat, who I understand has met with people in the Brooklyn
College IT department, has determined that SUBO has only token ring on the
upper floors. As I understand the messages, IT will not permit us to put any
of our own equiptment in the Library or SUBO, although the library can take
some 135 wireless access connects with passwords which they will give us.
NYLXS can work with NYWIRELESS and set up wireless in both SUBO and the
Library if we had permission, with a closed wireless setup. As I understand
this from Nat in the message he left me just prior to taking leave, IT is not
willing to let us set up an ethernet bridge on the token ring, or to set up
at the library.
The GNOME people from MIT in Boston feel that internet access is very important
for the developers at the conference. I've thought that we might be able
to set something up from the internet cafe in SUBO if need be, or to move the
actual conference to the Library.
But until I got your voice message tonight, I haven't recieved any solid
feedback other than Nat's message. So I've started to work on Plan B for
the conference, which is holding the bulk of the event at the NYLXS
education center on Kings Highway. Holding it at the University is by
far my first choice.
In addition, IT feels it needs to have 2 people at the library when we use that
access point. In this regard, I can understand their desire to have their
people available.
Long before I was involved in these computer events, I created a wonderful
website called Brooklyn On Line (http://www.brooklynonline.com). I did a
lot of work with Professor Arther Bankoff from Brooklyn College on the site.
Later on, as I created NYLXS and became increasingly involved in Free Software,
I've always looked for ways to promote Brooklyn, and Free Software together.
Holding this event at Brooklyn Colleged seemed like a perfect way to tie
both of these passions into one great event for both the Free Software and the
Brooklyn Community. But I seem to not have the ability to get all the necessary
parties on the same page.
I believe that this conference can be very good for the prestige of the
College, and we've worked with CUNY before on very successful events. Over
60 people have already registered for the conference from South America, Spain,
Canada, Mexico, England, and accross the United States.
The Conference itself is being partly funded by the GNOME Foundation through the
generosity of the Novel Corperation and other spouncers. However, our overall
budget, minus the NYLXS dinner, needs to be less than $5000.00. I thought we
would be able to make this cost without a problem. However, the costs keep
creeping up.
Aaron Tenenbaum is very concerned that BC can not hold such an event because of
it's limited resources. I have always viewed BC and nothing but one of the
finest institutions in the country. But BC has a lot of individuals involved
in making decisions, and when I tried to bridge all these different needs, I
failed in becoming an adequate organizer and advocate for the institution.
If we can get this conference into either SUBO or the Library under budget,
NYLXS and I myself, are extremly interested in doing anything necessary to
make everyone happy at the GNOME Foundation and at BC. If not, then I hope
that we can still use SUBO for the opening ceremonies which would include the
opening remarks for Richard Stallman and some of the GNOME leaders, and then
move the rest of the conference to our private educational facility.
If we have permission, we can certainly set up any networking needs that
we have.
I'm copying this email to Mitzu at Subo, Ben at NYWIRELSS, and NYLXS.
I can be reached tomorrow from noon to 5pm at 1-718-382-0585. And
thank you for ALL your help.
Yours Truly
Secretary NYLXS
Ruben Safir
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