Whoever organises and at whatever level, for both commerce and private this is an idea whose time has come.<br>Commerce needs support to move into Open Source and private users just need support. I have helped a number of individuals to start with Ubuntu and for some it has stuck and they become fans.
<br>Linux need not be an arcane secret anymore. I hope those of you with the expertise and courage give it a go.<br>I can offer experience of getting naive users on their way.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/26/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Jethro Carr</b> <<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:13 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:<br>> Jethro Carr wrote:<br>> >>> I have two initial thoughts on the topic.<br>> >>><br>> >>> 1) Could we just go for hosting <a href="http://linux.conf.au/">
http://linux.conf.au/</a> in Jan/Feb 2009?<br>> >>> Would that be better than reinventing the wheel?><br>> >> I believe there are already some moves afoot to do a Wellington LCA in 2010.<br>> >
<br>> > Who's involved in that?<br>> ><br>> > Would be nice if they communicated with Wellylug.<br>><br>> Come now. Everyone knows that the location of future events is never<br>> announced until the organisers are confident that the city can pull it
<br>> off. Often such things are announced proudly at keynotes as the<br>> "competing" candidates, who are always self selected, see whether their<br>> pitches to host the event have worked. Consider it an act of grace that
<br>> somebody is spreading a rumour like this on-list.<br><br>yes, I'm familiar with the way conferences are selected.<br><br>But if there are a group of people planning to put a bid in, it would be<br>nice if they communicated with other people with the same interests (aka
<br>Wellylug) who may have members keen in helping.<br><br><br>--<br>Jethro Carr<br><br><a href="http://www.jethrocarr.com">www.jethrocarr.com</a><br><a href="http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog">www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
</a><br><br><br><br>--<br>Wellington Linux Users Group Mailing List: <a href="mailto:wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz">wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz</a><br>To Leave: <a href="http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug">
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