Orr Dunkelman wrote: > Hi everybody! > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dotan Cohen<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Haifux is what we make of it. "We" are the people who attend the meetings. >>> >> With that I could agree! > > "We, the people" is a lovely statement. Google the rest. > >> I have no problem with this, in fact as a largely silent "member" of >> Haifux I do not expect that it would matter even if I did have a >> problem! However, I felt it right to point out to Shlomi from which >> perspective his lecture would be most parallel with what I perceive >> Haifux to be. > > Yes. Haifux is indeed one of these concepts. If you think Haifux is a > Guava, then Haifux is a Guava (so does the zionism, btw). > >>> BTW, when Haifux was founded in 1999 by guy keren and Orr Dunkelman, >>> it was not based on a LUG but on LUPG - Little Unix Programmers Group: >>> http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/ >>> >> I see no mention of Haifux on that page, nor of that page on the >> Haifux site. Therefore, one could not deduce the Little Unix >> Programmers Group moniker from publicly- available Haifux information. >> I will however quote the opening lines of the Haifux website: >> "The Haifa Linux Club is a home for Linux users and programmers in the >> Haifa area. Haifux stands for Haifa Linux Users Group." >> >> So, while you are correct that the group is made for programmers as >> well as users, I still contend that the name implies users as the main >> audience. Despite that, being that programmers are specifically >> mentioned in who the group is for, a lecture aimed at programmers >> would in fact be appropriate for the group. >> > > Well, this is mentioned once in a while (especially when we discuss > the "charter" of haifux). > > But fear not! > > We the People of Haifux, in Order to form a more perfect LUG, > establish clux, ensure domestic Open Sourceness, provide for the > common creatives, promote the general Welfare, and secure the > Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and > establish this Constitution for the Haifa Linux User Group. > > (and starting from this day onward, let it be known that Guy Keren is > our founding father).
and that makes you - what? the founding mother? ;) but to get to the point - what dotan is saying could be translated to "perhaps SiL (Staying in Linux) should be re-incarnated?" --guy _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
