[TriLUG] Another Installfest?

[Sinner from the Prairy]

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> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 14:41, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> > What do you think about an Installfest specialy directed to the Asian
> > community in the Triangle? Y'all know about Red Flag Linux, Hancom office
> > and other GNU/Linux/OpenSource initiatives in Asia.

> Personally, I think we should help people of any race, creed, or belief
> system at the installfest. If they happen to want to install one of the
> Asian distros, more power to them, and I/we will gladly help.

OK

> However, having an installfest for a particular Ethnic, Racial,
> Religious or etc. group falls into the anti-discriminatory clauses of
> the AoI and against my personal beliefs. We're all Linux users here,
> regardless of national or ethnic origin, right?

Yes.

> If we went through with this suggestion, would we then have a
> African-American installfest? How about a Latino installfest? How about
> an installfest aimed at the homosexual community? A Catholic
> installfest? A women's installfest?

> I'm sure we've had members from all of these groups attend our meetings
> - should we have an installfest targeted at their demographic? And hey,
> maybe there are people out there that aren't happy with one of the
> previously mentioned groups - how would a "targeted" installfest affect
> their viewing of TriLUG and the linux community as a whole?

> > If his goes OK, we can start to have schools and "theme" installfests.

> I'm not against this idea, though. if a group asks for our help in
> throwing an installfest, I'm all for it. However, I will not accept
> unless *ANYONE* who wants to come in and install Linux can do so.

What a mess that I have made!

I didn't explicitely said so, but I meant so. Whoever knows me can tell you 
that I do not discriminate or anything like that.

I guess I don't really get the tensions that those topics arise in the USA. I 
never meant an installfest *only* for Asian people. 

I ask for public excuses if someone felt insulted / injuried in any way.

If that was what you understood by reading my message, is my fault for not 
being more clear. And for not being 100% proficient in English (no, babelfish 
does not help.)

Let me try to put it in another words:

Liyuan asked me if Trilug would help in an Installfest where he can bring many 
friends to Linux. Such Installfest will be open to everyone, even to 
big'n'bearded, green-eyed, bike-riding white folks. Well, open to anyone that 
shows up with a computer. Anyone means anyone. Yes, even MSCE could attend.

> That being said, how about we do our next installfest in August? That's
> about three months from now, and would be right on time for the third
> quarter. How about we do it at UNC (if they are willing to host us) and
> help *ANYONE* who shows up install whatever distro they want.

Exactly. Most probably we can Liyun help in getting UNC support for it. I just 
remembered that someone from ILS (Information and Library Science) Dept. from 
UNC-Chapel Hill was interested in doing something similar.

So, with those corrections to my previous message, what do you say?



Salut,
Sinner
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