On 22 May 2003, Ludovic [ISO-8859-1] P�net wrote: > > a) not announcing it (at least not enough - see below) > It was announced in France. The emphasis was on "not enough" - at least if you want to reach an international public your statement underlines what I said.
> > b) finding the same date as LinuxTag > LinuxTag and LSM do not have the same public. If you ask me I would have joined LSM to meet developers of free medical software instead of just reporting about free medical software on LinuxTag. You are right - the events are quite different but former LSM - LinuxTag conflicting dates showed that many people are interested in BOTH events. At least you can find a certain amount of people her on this list. > Yes, and it was true. In march, things changed and it became possible to > organise the LSM in Metz. Which is great and I'm happy about it. You would have at least one partipiciant more if I would have known this in March. > > They did put a hint on their web page about a changed location. I have to > > admit that I have heard about "some kind of event in Metz" but no words > > about the continuation of LSM tradition. > Well, on http://lsm.abul.org/home.php3?langnew=en is written "LSM 2003 > will be held in Metz". OK - I just take back my words - I was looking for this infromation in January and February - just before I applied for a talk at LinuxTag. > > The fact that they just choose the same date as LinuxTag now disables me to > > join even if I would really like to take part in LSM. :-((( > Reality is cruel. ;-) For a lot of reasons, we had the choice between: > no LSM and LSM at the same date than LinuxTag. As the public of the two > meetings is not the same, I have little problem with this conflict. IMHO this is wrong but anyway I wish you the best success with your conference and hope to meet you at LSM 2004 wherever it will take place. > > If I look at the schedule I do not find any concrete facts and thus I wonder > > whether they should try to shift the date to some date which does not > > conflict > > with LinuxTag. > ??? > > http://rencontresmondiales.org/program/ > http://rencontresmondiales.org/program/calendrier.html > > This is not concrete? ;-) Hmmm, well, I'm happy that you appended the smiley so I do not have to quote the huge concrete contents of this page. In fact I looking for the medical track if it might be worth changing my plans ... Kind regards Andreas.
