RE Misinformation and General Commonsense. Was [plug] Linus Torvalds' role at conference

[Craig Foster]

Thankyou for calling me short-sighted, shallow and bitter, not to me,
but in the public forum. 

I can't go to the conf for various recent reasons (including work) and
have friends busily beavering notes to bring back. ("showbags" ^_^)
I am, though, disappointed that as a person who was 99.999% ready to go
but decided not to, that the organisers knew of of 'yet another
sweetner' (even said as much in the original post). While I do
appreciate the fact that Linus' schedule wasn't set (didn't know
before), I think a bit more promotion besides 'guess what we forgot to
tell you, Linus is coming' a day before the conf wouldn't have gone
astray, especially as PLUG is supposed to promote linuxconf. The other
promotional stuff has increased awareness quite well.

That ONE person, and his SHORT-SIGHTED post got a few e-mails saying it
may have been a small factor in more than just my decision to attend.

Regards,

Craig Foster
fostware at iinet.net.au (with SMIME) 

PS I've "taken it on the chin" now, so don't bother replying... Thread
dropped...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garry [mailto:garbuck at westnet.com.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:17 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: RE Misinformation and General Commonsense. Was 
> [plug] Linus Torvalds' role at conference
> 
> 
> 
> If most of us make a decision we later regret, we take it on 
> the chin with an 
> "oh well"..
> 
> No matter what the process you went through in your decision, 
> no matter what 
> factors you used, it was an assessment made by one person. 
> Being bitter about 
> a decision YOU have made is just plain silly, innit?
> 
> Linus' attendence is really icing on the cake, trust me. The 
> lectures I have 
> heard have been all given by people who are clearly boffins. 
> I have very much 
> enjoyed Rusty's humour, Bdale's enthusiasm and motorvation, 
> Trent's depth of 
> knowledge and guts for public speaking as well as Rassmus' 
> surprisingly 
> capable baby, PHP..
> 
> This is after only the Debian Miniconference and first day of 
> the conference 
> proper. Rubbing shoulders and chatting with some of the 
> brightest minds on 
> the planet, meeting fellow enthusiasts from around the world 
> and learning 
> about projects by the people who actually started and/or head 
> them is a real 
> treat.
> 
> If YOU were too short sighted to see the potential, or too 
> shallow to only 
> appreciate the closeness of Linus, it is only due to the 
> thought process of 
> ONE person. YOU.
> 
> One way or another, everyone attending is there due to 
> sacrifices they have 
> made. Don't be bitter I say. 
> 
> Reards
> 
> Garry.
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:01, Craig Foster wrote:
> > For FSCK sake people!
> >
> > <soapbox>
> >
> > Many Linux people are in full time jobs putting into 
> practice what the
> > plug list usually talk about. Many have forgone LCA for 
> paid work (ask
> > anyone about Computing unemployment at the moment) and 
> Linus *may* have
> > the been the final straw to put their money down (remember 
> that those
> > who do the work don't have the discounts students do). I 
> pre-registered
> > but lack the funds at the moment. (January is always quite time for
> > computer sales and service...)
> >
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