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| DATE | 2003-12-24 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] My thoughts on LinuxWorld & the future
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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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