[svlug] celebrities in the Open Source community

[Chris DiBona]

These are solutions that don't seem to be addressing a known problem. 

  Chris

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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Russ Emerson wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Director of Linux Marketing - VA Research Inc.
>       http://www.varesearch.com
> > Vice President, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
>          http://www.svlug.org
> > Linux, Terrorism, Art and more...
>                        http://www.dibona.com
> > Tannu Tuva or Bust!                 whois cjd32             There is no
> cabal.
> >
> > 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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