[svlug] Feedback I received about the tea party event

[Marc MERLIN]

Hi,

I got some Email feedback about my page, and one of the Emails is of
interest to everyone (posted with the author's permission):

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From: "Daniel B. Silverman" <dbs at microfocus.com>                                
Subject: Kudos to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group.                        
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:45:40 -0800                                           
                                                                                
        I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that I was             
impressed to say the least with your group. Kudos on the cue at the             
Microsoft party. My impression was vary good. I felt everyone involved was      
there to have a good time and promote the Linux OS. Admittedly I showed up      
after hearing from a friend, that belongs to your news group, that you would    
be handing out free copies of Linux. I lost a job offer because I had no        
Unix OS experience. Even though I did not get my picture taken I wanted to      
let everyone in the group know how friendly you were and I felt very much at    
home and welcomed by everyone. Being a newbe to the Unix based OS I had,        
what I felt to be a lot of naive beginner questions. I have to say that         
everyone answered them with enthusiasm and wanted to help me learn as much      
as possible. I felt that the protest was quite and orderly, and that your       
mission statement was well received by everyone. At least everyone not          
affiliated with Microsoft anyway. Keep up the good work. I was also             
wondering if anyone provided work shops outside of the install fests to new     
users on how to use Linux, i.e. learning basic grep commands and getting        
around in the operating system. Any helpful hints would be much appreciated.    
                                                                                
        Sincerely,
     Daniel B Silverman                                                         
      Sr. Help Desk Administrator                                               
     Micro Focus                                                                
     http://dbs@microfocus.com
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BTW, I told him the following:
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> affiliated  with  Microsoft anyway. Keep  up  the  good work. I  was  also    
> wondering if  anyone provided work shops  outside of the install  fests to    
> new  users on  how to  use Linux,  i.e. learning  basic grep  commands and    
> getting around  in the operating  system. Any helpful hints would  be much    
> appreciated

I  don't think  there  is  anything like  that. Honestly,  first basic  unix    
commands, nothing  beats a good unix  book, and some time  on your computer,    
that's how we all learned :-)                                                   
                                                                                
However, if once you're learned something you  can't get it to work and have    
some question, feel free to post it on the svlug list, and someone should be    
able to help you out.
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Marc
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