I will run some adverts through facebook land today!
On Sep 7, 2013 9:06 AM, "Tom Brough" <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> On 07/09/13 01:59, bad apple wrote:
>>
>> On 07/09/13 01:26, Tom Brough wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/09/13 00:54, Simon Avery wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If your NOT even prepared to do that ....
what are you doing on
>>>> this list in the first place?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Er, talking about linux and sharing clue.
>>>>
>>>> I've never claimed to be sociable and the level
of help I decide to
>>>> give to this or any other hobby is rather down
to me. Appreciate your
>>>> passion, but ease up on the emotional blackmail
please!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Perhaps you are right.
>>>
>>> The intention was to deliver a gentle kick up the
back side not a
>>> nuclear bomb.
>>>
>>> If you genuinely feel you cant do any more then
that's ok....
>>>
>>> But I would ask you to consider that as there are
200+ members in this
>>> mail group, if each one just emailed 1 friend and
invited them to SFD
>>> this weekend, it would reach more people than 3
event organisers could
>>> reach in a whole year. Thats not to say they will
come ... but it does
>>> plant a tiny seed.
>>>
>>> After all if we cant cloud source for SFD where can
we cloud source?
>>>
>>> And remember more new blood = fresh ideas and
solutions to common
>>> problems.
>>>
>> I feel a bit guilty for even dissenting in the first
place now :]
>>
>> Your heart's obviously in the right place and you
obviously really care
>> about this - I think I've guessed by this point that
you're involved on
>> the organisational level rather than just being
interested so all I can
>> say is I hope it goes really well. Good luck sir.
>>
>> Come to think of it, there's a couple of stereotypical
junior IT bods
>> (very young, gamers, smart arses, windows "power"
users, broadly
>> incompetent) at a gig in Exeter who run all the windows
desktops and the
>> Sharepoint server that I'd love get shipped to you for
the entire event.
>> Please feel free to thoroughly indoctrinate the little
wretches in the
>> errors of their ways. They run cover on Saturdays
anyway, not that they
>> actually do anything other than play Facebook games
according to the
>> logs, so I'm sure I the boss and I could 'spare' them
and tell them it's
>> training. They could walk there from St David's station
couldn't they?
>>
>> I'm still not coming though!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> Thanks for your support and change of heart. A bit sad that
you can't make it, I would have really liked to hear about the
important work you are doing as a package maintainer and it
would demonstrate to the next generation that you don't need to
be a coder to contribute, but I genuinely understand if you cant
make it.
>
> Feel free to ship me anyone you can think of (though its
not about indoctrination its about showing anyone interested
that there are other options and choices). If you could do this
it would meet option 3 on my list (tell someone else), but
please don't slap them in irons we would prefer people to cross
the venue threshold of their own free will.
>
> Looking forward....
>
> If you could make a space in you calendar for next year's
event and come and talk about the role of a package maintainer,
possibly even run a maintainer workshop so people can have a go?
That would be really welcome.
>
> As "usual" we have left the organisation to a very late
stage this year, but this is the first we have run in many
years, and we got our fingers burnt in the past because nobody
turned up... However this might be the springboard to more
organised events in future. Certainly if we can get a better
dialogue going in here we may get more people to demo things. We
need artists, scientists, package maintainers, web developers,
anybody to come and demonstrate their skills using free
software just as much as we need coders.... all are welcome,
even if they want to demo something like inkscape on a windows
platform it really is not a problem, in fact it would
demonstrate the diverse range of platforms that free software
operates in.
>
> I think if we have learnt anything this year its that we
need to keep that dialogue going all year round so that people
are ready and confident enough to contribute next time around.
DCGLUG is the life blood of Free Software in the extreme south
west of the UK I for one want to keep that life blood flowing.
>
> Again thanks for your support, it really raises our
spirits.
>
> Regards
>
> Tom.
>
>
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