On Monday 16 February 2009 13:44:34 Nadav Vinik wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Yesterday we held a meeting where Zvi Devir gave his "Windows Refund > > HOWTO", > > which was an interesting presentation about a widely-discussed topic, > > that received a lot of publicity. I publicised this meeting on several > > mailing lists, as well as on whatsup, linmagazine, and other forums. We > > also have some > > feeds, and a Google calendar for the events (also in iCal format) if > > people wish to subscribe to them exclusively. > > > > However, despite all that, only 5-6 people (including the presenter and > > me) came to hear the talk. The question is why? > > > > Zvi already advised me that next times I should approach TAU-specific > > channels > > and publicise it there. I'll talk with Eddie Aronovich, who is our > > contact in > > the university about it. However, it still doesn't explain why many > > previous > > Telux attendees, who are not associated with the university did not come. > > > > So: > > > > 1. What is the reason you did not come? > > The same reasons for the rest of the lectures which I didn't come: > It's start to early in 6:30 and need to go out from work even earlier..
We've had similar discussions before. The problems with starting it later is: 1. The building gets closed at 20:30-21:00 . So we won't have a lot of time. 2. People tend to become tired so late into the night. 3. Some people have to return home early. (like K12 students, etc.) ----------- Note that getting to the meeting later is probably better than not coming at all. And I should note that other people and I have voiced our sentiments against the current practices of many weekly hours of work: http://xrl.us/begfcc . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://xrl.us/bjn84 <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
