Re: Soon Announcements

[Shachar Shemesh]

Nadav Har'El wrote:

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Soon Announcements":
 

My failure to register is especially silly given the fact that I'm supposed
to present in that conference :)
     

I wouldn't worry about that.
   

I'm not sure we should be discussing this in the open like that, but I'll
do it anyway and duck...
I am worried about that, because I agreed to present in that conference
under the impression that it was a serious one, organized by serious people
(like you, Shachar) and attended by many people I'd like to meet.
But when I see that people on this list don't know about this conference,
that Mozilla users cannot even register (I've been trying for a couple of
months! Most people would just leave the site and forget all about it.)
But you only really complained about it now. I have checked it just now 
(after talking to their webmaster), and the site now works with Mozilla 
on Linux. A simple email solved the problem.

It is just luck that I happen to be subscribed to Linux IL, happen to 
know who to turn to at people & computers, and happen to posses the 
technical know -how to write an email giving specific instructions as to 
what needs to be changed in order to make everything work. In this 
particular case, less than half an hour elapsed from report to a fix. 
I'm sure that complaining to the webmaster would have worked better for 
you than complaining to a public unrelated mailing list.

I am worried. I already expressed both these worries a month ago, but they
were not fully addressed.
Obviously what I was worried about wasn't that they wouldn't let *me* in...
I have made an error in reporting the last time, for not including the 
page after the link is clicked. The last time it also took them about 
half an hour to fix the problem.

That being said, I believe that this conference, hoping that this time they
won't postpone it and that people manage to register, has the potential of
being very interesting :)
So I hope :-)

In a different email, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

I just looked at the registration page. I am not willing to register
my employer's details, since I am going to attend privately if at all,
not as a representative of my employer. So I thought it would be OK to
put HaMakor instead of the company's name (Is HaMakor a sponsor? There
is a broken link to "Irgun Linux" in the page Shachar pointed
to... What's that?). No way - they require addresses, phone numbers,
fax numbers - all mandatory. It is certainly reasonable for them to
request a phone number and an email address - they need to contact
participants somehow. However, I don't want to provide my home
address, and I have no fax... I decided not to fill the form out.
 

First - you can email [EMAIL PROTECTED], with subject of "go linux", and 
register that way. Give whatever details you deem right. I'm currently 
trying to coordinate with P&C a way for people with your predicament a 
way to register (either by sending Hamakor the details, and we will only 
transfer agregates to P&C, or by simply stating "Hamakor" as a code name 
for "private Linux user"). I will let you all know when we have a formal 
agreement.

               Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/


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