Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
for all the right reasons, is still a marketing guy. I think the fact that Go-Linux 2004 was so lame, and that Go-Linux 2005 was postponed no less than 4 times already (and I fully expect a fifth) has something to do with the fact that Go-Linux 2003 was NOT just a marketing thing, but something

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-21 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 07:40 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: ce, despite trying a couple of times. No one there wants me to talk to sponsors (and they may be right, after all). Judging from the amount of preperations done for Go-Linux 2004 [snip] Attempts by your truly to offer a lecture (for

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Marc A. Volovic wrote: [snip] Attempts by your truly to offer a lecture (for the tech track, not the buy my product, I am cute! track) about Linux in Bioinformatics failed (or - rather - stalled) for the simple reason that PC said - you wanna talk, pay NIS 14k (which I am not about to do ;-)...

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-21 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Eli Marmor, from the post of Thu, 20 Oct: Ira Abramov wrote: The Linux Users' group is a similar initiative (though if memory serves it's less tightly affiliated with PC, it's a joint marketing gimmick of Sun, SGI, IBM, Emet and a few others where the users in the title actually

RE: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-21 Thread Jobs - MainStream
] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 7:41 AM To: Eli Marmor Cc: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Go-Linux 2005 Eli Marmor wrote: Except for these narrow minded fixes, I agree. I've kept my mouth shut so far

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Michael Vasiliev wrote: On Wednesday October 19 2005 19:41, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). No, ILUG, Israeli Linux User Group. No

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:08:30PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: As far as I could tell, this group only exists for the single purpose of participating in the People and Computer events sponsered by the vendors. They don't seem to have any other activity, web site or forum/mailing list

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Thu, 20 Oct: Amazing though it may sound, I do belive that they simply did not start planning it yet. I am (usually) on their notification list for planning, and I have not heared anything from them. What you see on the site is a random list of

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 20 Oct: I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). No, ILUG, Israeli Linux User Group. No relation to IGLU or Hamakor or anything else that is community oriented. I have to admit

RE: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Jobs - MainStream
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ira Abramov Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:30 PM To: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Go-Linux 2005 Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 20 Oct: I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU

RE: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Orr Dunkelman
: ++[972] - 52 - 277-6374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ira Abramov Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:30 PM To: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Go-Linux 2005 Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 20 Oct: I saw

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: The Linux Users' group is a similar initiative (though if memory serves it's less tightly affiliated with PC, it's a joint marketing gimmick of Sun, SGI, IBM, Emet and a few others where the users in the title actually You forgot Oracle, the life and the soul behind this

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orna Agmon wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:23:31 +0200 From: Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL linux-il@linux.org.il, Ha'makor Discussions list discussions@hamakor.org.il Subject: Go-Linux 2005 Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il

Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-19 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). I didn't hear anything about this event from the community, and it seems we are not involved. Any one interested in changing this? (Keep in mind that the audience is for business and not

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). No, ILUG, Israeli Linux User Group. No relation to IGLU or Hamakor or anything else that is community oriented. I didn't hear

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-19 Thread Orna Agmon
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:23:31 +0200 From: Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL linux-il@linux.org.il, Ha'makor Discussions list discussions@hamakor.org.il Subject: Go-Linux 2005 Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Wednesday October 19 2005 19:41, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). No, ILUG, Israeli Linux User Group. No relation to IGLU or

Go-Linux 2004, Go-Linux 2005

2004-12-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Due mostly to time constraints, the Go-Linux event that will take place next week (22/12 at the Hilton) will not follow last year's format. Instead of several tracks, some of the highly technical, this conference is aimed mostly at IT managers, and will accordingly be mostly high level