ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Ira == Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ira anyone been there and cares to share any news and views they Ira collected? how was GBY's talk about Hamakor? I was there. I thought that GBY's talk was quite good, although (a) he was the final speaker, (b) he was cut off due to time

Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003, Reuven M. Lerner wrote about ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya: Ira anyone been there and cares to share any news and views they Ira collected? how was GBY's talk about Hamakor? ... (c) he was too Stallman-like for my taste, Too Stallman-like? Gilad, you can take

Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Ira == Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ira anyone been there and cares to share any news and views they Ira collected? how was GBY's talk about Hamakor? Havn't been to the last session about open source - had to leave in order to get to

Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Nadav == Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nadav Too Stallman-like? Gilad, you can take that as a compliment Nadav :) I don't have anything against Gilad, and indeed believe that he did an excellent job overall. And it may well be that the forum *needed* a free as in freedom

The Hebrew Gap (was: Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya)

2003-02-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: Can you give a few more details? What generally-useful features of OpenOffice won't be available in Hebrew initially? (shameless plug) at least somebody is working on a spellchecker :) And someone else is beta-testing AbiWord on Hebrew documents. :-)

Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:59:35PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Reuven M. Lerner, from the post of Tue, 18 Feb: But I still would have liked to hear more of an overview of where things have come from, and where they're going -- and why an amuta is necessary and good. (I happen to

Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 09:58, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Ira == Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ira anyone been there and cares to share any news and views they Ira collected? how was GBY's talk about Hamakor? I was there. I thought that GBY's talk was quite good, although

Re: ISOC day at Kfar HaMakabiya

2003-02-18 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:36, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Nadav == Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nadav Too Stallman-like? Gilad, you can take that as a compliment Nadav :) I don't have anything against Gilad, and indeed believe that he did an excellent job overall. And it