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<font size=3>Please delete me from the list.<br>
Below is a sample of what stuff I am reading! None of this
will do Linux any good.<br><br>
Shane Wiley<br><br>
<br>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:27:50PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: <br>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Conrad Parker wrote: <br>
> <br>
> > A heap of crap <br>
> <br>
> If the objective of Linux Australia, is to discourage WA involvement
in <br>
> conferences and in Linux Australia, then I guess that holding a
<br>
> conference in NZ, is the way to go.<br>
Your rants are becoming tiresome heaps of crap.<br>
When other organisations learnt we were hosting a large conference in
<br>
Perth many went 'Oh, that's novel. We did that and it failed'.<br>
Hosting LCA2003 -- which you didn't bother to attend -- in Perth was a
<br>
huge gamble. Obviously in your book it counts for nothing. <br>
> I know of at least one professional attendee at this year's
conference, <br>
> who would be highly unlikely to attend a Linux conference in
NZ.<br>
So? I know plenty of people who attended every other LCA except this
<br>
one. It'd be boring if the same people turned up everytime. That's why
<br>
it is moved around -- precisely because not everyone can attend.<br>
If you want a conference which doesn't change location, LinuxWorld is
<br>
probably the right one for you.<br>
> It is difficult enough, to get an employer to sponsor attendance at
a <br>
> Linux conference, and, getting an employer to sponsor attendance at
a <br>
> Linux conference in NZ, for an employee in WA, would be completely
out <br>
> of the question.<br>
Unlucky. You'll have to enjoy the conference vicarously then. Every LCA
<br>
I've had to take personal leave and pay my own way. If it really <br>
mattered to you, you'd do the same.<br>
> But then, I suppose, this goes back to the question of what Linux
<br>
> Australia is about, and, whether it is really for the whole of
<br>
> Australia.<br>
No it doesn't. If you could bother to get some interest in organising a
<br>
conference in WA (not even an LCA) you'd find Linux Australia to be very
<br>
supportive. <br>
You don't seem to have grasped that if _you_ don't want to do anything
<br>
productive, nothing is going to happen. Why haven't you set about <br>
organising an installfest or configfest? <br>
Why haven't you contacted the WA department of fair trading about <br>
electronic votes and such. Weren't you going to put some information for
<br>
LA so that they could proceed -- after all you were one of the <br>
individual pressing for this with some vigour.<br>
Almost everytime you rant and rave your posts seem to reflect an <br>
inferiority complex that you have about WA and the rest of
Australia.<br>
It is becoming rather tiresome.<br>
It'd be far more interesting to read about why the City of Armidale
<br>
consider 'Windows 2000 Professional Server' "standard practise"
on their <br>
tenders.<br>
Anand<br>
-- <br>
`` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. <br>
When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never <br>
leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada <br>
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