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Much appreciated...On 07/09/13 09:11, Daniel Robinson wrote:
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:
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>> On 07/09/13 01:26, Tom Brough wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/09/13 00:54, Simon Avery wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Â Â ÂIf your NOT even prepared to do that .... what are you doing on
>>>> Â Â Âthis 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, ÂI 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 Âto 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 Âanything 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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