[svlug] celebrities in the Open Source community

[Russ Emerson]

Well, there *is* the primitive alternative of handing out 3x5 cards to
people when they sign in for the meeting....  Of course, collecting them
in a timely manner after the speech/presentation could be a minor nightmare
in and of itself.

Russ

On Nov 13, 18:54, Chris DiBona wrote:
> Subject: Re: [svlug] celebrities in the Open Source community
> Yeah, but I don't like that so much for a number of reasons.
>
> We're the SVLUG not the global-lug.
> We want to be able to question them on things they -don't- want to answer.
> We want to be able to keep the questioned tied to the speech.
>
> So I guess I don't like the idea.
>
>  Chris
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> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Harry Souders wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Chris DiBona wrote:
> >
> > > That is actually a terrific idea harry, but I am also afraid of acting as
> > > an inadvertant censor. What do you guys think? It works well now, I
> >
> > I have only been to one SVLUG meeting (this past Novembers) so I am not
> > too familiar with the usual format of meetings.
> >
> > My thought is to have 'some way' for people to post questions for him.
> > Later (prior to his presentation) the most popular?/important? questions
> > can be given to him. Heck, give him all the questions<g>.
> >
> > But seriously, I'm thinking an arbitrary e-mail address could be made
> > available to post questions (ie. gnu_questions at svlug.org) or better still,
> > since whoever is handling the svlug WWW page seems pretty adept, maybe a
> > special WWW page (form) could be made that allows people to post questions
> > and see what questions were previously posted. Later a summary (or all
> > questions) are given to Stallman.
> >
> > I'd like to help make the most the presentation, this might help (maybe?)
> >
> > One last thought...
> > Having the WWW question form would allow ANYONE with an internet
> > connection to ask questions, potentially a powerful Q&A way of exchanging
> > info.
> >
>
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