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Re: [Linux-aus] Conference Idea

Pia Waugh wrote: 
Hi Mikal,

<quote who="Michael Still">

Yeah, nothing came of it though. I got the impression at the time (IIRC) that the committee thought it was a crap idea. 

It is exactly that positive attitude which makes you and your ideas so
approachable ;)

Well, I am summarizing a bazillion email thread here, I think the poetic license is justified.

Seriously though, at the time we (the LA ctte) said it might be doable but
I think we didn't really have the scope to do it.

I personally agree that SFD is the place to do it, and SFD teams around the
world/country already get sponsorship for the event and run workshops,
talks, installfests and other newbie/general public type events.

I think it already is a place for such an event, and that yet another event
would probably be too much.

At the time it was partially motivated by a desire to keep LCA as technical as possible, and to attract the people who want to go to a Linux event, but can't tell you what is stored in an inode to an event more focused to their needs and interests.

For people interested, the thread is online. I can't find the starting point in my limited time (I have to go put the kids to bed), but a good starting point appears to be:

http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2005-February/msg00137.html

which worked into

http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2005-February/msg00166.html

and

http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2005-March/msg00000.html

and then

http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2005-March/msg00003.html

and then nothing happened. There were lots of people interested at the time, it's just that nothing happened.

Mikal