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| DATE | 2003-12-26 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Re: RE: [hangout] My thoughts on LinuxWorld & the future
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I guess I should state the obvious.
I'm in, great idea, lets set up a meeting and do it.
Steve M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Inker, Evan"
Date: Friday, December 26, 2003 10:52 am
Subject: RE: [hangout] My thoughts on LinuxWorld & the future
>
> I agree with you both. It would be a chance to shape a real Free
> Software/Open Source Convention in contrast to having entities
> like MS, SCO
> and SUN showing up at the current LinuxWorld Expos.
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruben I Safir [mailto:ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 10:44 PM
> To: David Sugar
> Cc: 'Hangout -at- nylxs . com'
> Subject: Re: [hangout] My thoughts on LinuxWorld & the future
>
>
>
> I'm very much in favor of doing something like this and it's very
> ambitious.If we start planning now, we can do an advanced
> educational show, perhaps in
> one of the hotels, or if we do it in the summer, we might be able
> to rope
> one of the universities into providing and underwriting space.
> Ideally,this would be 4 days, with a business, training and
> hacking sections running
> side by side, so that we can get, say, guys at IBM to be sitting
> with and
> working with folks from KDE, Open Office etc.
>
> We'd need to first outline what we'd like to get done, so perhaps
> we can do
> a retreat to
> Lake Placid on that last week of January for planning and recreation.
>
>
> Ruben
>
> On 2003.12.24 18:43 David Sugar wrote:
> >
> > Now that it seems "LinuxWorld" is leaving the world's capital
> for some
> > obscure
> > little city up the coast, I do not find myself particularly
> mournful of
> this
> > loss, but rather I would like to put forward the suggestion that
> this as
> an
> > opportunity for all of us in this region to consider.
> >
> > I think long ago LinuxWorld failed to serve well the needs of
> our
> > community,
> > whether commercially or not. Even as a commercial free software
> vendor, I
>
> > found so little potential value in this year's LinuxWorld in NYC
> that I
> had
> > already chosen to participate in a more obscure event in Germany
> instead,and
> > so I will not be attending this very last LinuxWorld in NYC at all.
> >
> > What I think we need is to think and plan about some kind of
> event
> > that can
> > effectively serve the needs of our community and show why NYC is
> also the
> > capital of software freedom. Such an event need not be a
> "large" event,
> like
> > LinuxWorld, but for whatever scope it has, it should be well
> funded from
> the
> > very start, and I believe principally through local resources if
> at all
> > possible. I also believe it should focus on the freedoms
> offered, both
> > commercially and non-commercially, through the use of free
> software.
> >
> > Some events I have seen like this include the annual "GNU/Linux
> > Summit" hosted
> > in Helsinki, or perhaps something like LinuxTag in Germany. In
> fact, I
> think
> > that particular event (in Helsinki) is probably closest in
> nature and
> scope
> > to this kind of model and event I am suggesting here, besides, "NYC
> GNU/Linux
> > Summit" does have a nice ring to it, especially if it takes
> place on land
> > owned by NJ :).
> >
> > Perhaps a good time to plan for a potential future locally
> sponsored
> > free
> > software event would be the week after the close of this year's
> LinuxWorld
> > itself. This would provide some opportunity for people to
> discuss such an
>
> > event with local vendors at LinuxWorld and also to collect a
> list of
> > potential sponsors. Perhaps planning for this new event would
> best be
> done
> > at some kind of retreat over a weekend, where quiet and thoughtful
> planning
> > can occur through the use of liberal libations. Perhaps Ruben
> may be able
> to
> > suggest an appropriate setting to do this kind of planning?
> >
> > David
> >
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