And in case my email style is too cryptic, I should add, I think that the whole Debian crew have been extending the community spirit. Its quite rare to see someone glowing like Daisy was after her recognition in the opening. I hope she feels like her efforts were worthwhile (I think so).
.hc On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Woo hoo! From my experience in organizing events, janitors are used > to being invisible and ignored, and when you treat them like > everyone else helping out with your event, they greatly appreciate > it, and will make extra efforts to help out. > > .hc > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > >> While cleaning up after dinner tonight, I spoke with someone from >> Columbia University Facilities. He was curious why we were >> cleaning up >> and I said we didn't want to make too much extra work for Facilities. >> He said he appreciated our assistance and then asked about where to >> find >> more information about Open Source software. >> >> We should continue to leave the least impact on Columbia as possible. >> Thank you to everyone who's been helping clean up after our meals! >> _______________________________________________ >> Debconf-team mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally > for machines to execute. > - from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls you." - Richard M. Stallman _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
