[TriLUG] Flowe Desktop Demo - Thank you

[Tan T. Phan]

Dear TriLUG,
Thank you for giving me an opportunity to come and demo the Flowe 
Desktop. I hope you all got some fun out of looking at it and perhaps 
trying it when you can. The demo barely scratched what the desktop can 
do for both beginner and seasoned Linux users.

To add to some comments on the list (except included below), I would 
like to say that the group actually gave me MORE time than we first 
agreed. So, thank you again!

As for the actual work on Flowe Desktop and its foundation technology, I 
did all of the work -- nights and weekends from 1988 to 2000, and 
full-time in 2001. There are only about 500K lines of C++ code for the 
product -- quite slim compared to many Linux projects.

Thanks again and I hope to have another opportunity to come visit and 
contribute to TriLUG.
-Tan
Founder & CTO
Codeflex, Inc.

By the way, I kinda liked the rambling at the meeting -- the real fun 
and time away from the day-to-day office chores!


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Message: 38 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:17:21 -0500
From: Mike Johnson <mike at enoch.org>
To: trilug at trilug.org Subject:
Re: [TriLUG] a trend at trilug meetings
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John Matthews [jvmatthe at math.duke.edu] wrote:

 >Honestly, I didn't catch all the details about last night's speaker, but
 > he seemed to indicate that he'd done all the work (or at least a great


You missed the fact that he wasn't the speaker.  He was the meeting
sponsor.  That means he gets some time to talk about his product
or whatever, but not the whole meeting.  We might could get him
to give an entire talk about it sometime, but that wasn't the
purpose of him being there last night.


 > right there in the room. For the amount of work he's put into it, I felt
 > we gave him far less respect than he deserved, not only in the amount of
 > time we gave him, but also the amount of background chatter that was
 > going on while he was trying to talk. And although I regret to say it,
 > the steering committee doesn't always set the best example in this
 > regard. *hides*


Well, you shouldn't regret it.  You're absolutely right.  Unfortunately,
this didn't occur to me until after he'd finished speaking.  I=20
definately contributed to the background chatter, rather than paying
attention.  I do apologize for that.  It was rude, and I apologize.


 > The rambling was more pronounced at last night's meeting than at any
 > other I've been to. If it continues in that manner, I'd be much less
 > inclined to go to TriLUG meetings. :^|


Rambling was the purpose of last night's meeting.  It was all about
rambling.  Other meetings are not meant to have anywhere near as
much chatter.  You can rest assured that the other meetings you've
attended are more representative of the amount of rambling than
last night's meeting.

Mike