New Thread: What To Do Instead?

2007-08-19 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: But I think our time, money, and effort are better spent elsewhere. It was always interesting and fun, but it's time to move on. What to do instead is best addressed in a separate thread. Clear skies, everyone. Thanks, Ben. I was willing to help shoulder some of

Re: New Thread: What To Do Instead?

2007-08-19 Thread Ted Roche
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: With the organizer's permission, I would like to send a brief note to Al Schuman telling him that as a group GNHLUG does not anticipate having a presence at NEARFest this fall, and that he should not hold the space for us. Very good idea, maddog. Thanks for thinking

Re: Hosstraders/NearFest

2007-08-19 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Al, GNHLUG has talked it over, and as a formal group we have decided not to participate in NEARFest this year. This has nothing to do with NEARFest per se, but the changing market of Linux and free software. For several years (as you know) we came to Hosstraders to do a couple of things: o