mulix
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 04:38:15 -0700
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: [shlomif suggested lin-club and lin-club-programming] [i suggested lin-club-announce and lin-club] > I don't think the projects are the "core reason for the club's being". The > way I see it, the club exists because people happen to like Linux and the > various software associated with it, and enjoy giving and attending > lectures about it, and (but not only) enjoy conducting projects that > relate to it. > > Do you imply that if the club did not produce a single line of source > code, it would have had no right to exist? of course it would have a right to exist. but to be called a 'linux' club, without producing code - that's open to debate. you might recall me making an informal survey, and finding out most (all?) of the club's members are programmers. i think, i really do, that a club full of prgrammers should be, at least in part, about programming... > Back to our subject: the reason I suggested the split is to increase the > signal-to-noise ratio of the mailing-list for those who are not interested > in disucssing the minute details of the projects we take. I do not imply > by this, that the projects are any less part of the club's activity. could we have a show of hands, please? how many of you, club members, read or skip r2l related mails? -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead