[TriLUG] TriLUG Ubuntu Fall Fund Drive

[David McDowell]

This is interesting Matt... I musta missed it, where was it deemed we
would NOT do Fedora?  I also agree, I think we should be open to
all... :)


On 9/16/05, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:21 -0400, Matt Frye wrote:
> > On 9/15/05, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We still haven't reached the goal of getting 100 people
> > > to comment on the petition to get Jeff Waugh of Ubuntu to
> > > visit TriLUG.  Right now, we still need 33 more people to
> > > post a comment at
> >
> > I'd like to open up a little debate here.  Could someone please tell
> > me why a presentations on Fedora is considered "too distro biassed for
> > TriLUG," but an Ubuntu presentation is not?
> >
> > That being said, I did sign Tanner's petition, but it's because I
> > believe that presentations on distros are what TriLUG should be doing.
> 
> Wow.  Well put, Matt!
> 
> If anyone decides to argue the "other side" of that issue, they should
> hang their head in shame and voluntarily add the title "Village Idiot"
> to their .signature file for the ensuing month.
> 
> But hey, thats just my [1] opinion.  ;-)
> 
> Ed
> 
> [1] DISCLAIMERS:
>  Given current geographic location, pregnant wife, etc.
>    I just can't attend TriLUG meetings.  But I do sorely miss
>    the discussions, people, and pizza!
>  I'm a Fedora Extras contributor so, yes, I'm horribly,
>    irretrievably, and unabashedly biased.
>  I'd love to give a presentation about how we use Fedora
>    for basically everything at work from laptops to desktops
>    to compute clusters with hundreds of nodes, how to join FE,
>    some of the neat stuff we've learned (sometimes the hard
>    way!) as a result of all the above, etc.
> 
> 
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