Look we had some discussion at the beginning of the year as to what
people wanted. there was no coherent body of opinion as to what was
wanted. 

There was talk of an installfest in March, then April then May. However
no-one has actually done anything.  (BTW this is not the gentoo
installfest being discussed in the last couple of days).

This upcoming suse demo by volker is an example of doing something
ad-hoc when the need or opportunity arises.

To summarise last year, we booked meetings every month. we ran out of
people who were prepared to speak at meetings. we ran out of people who
wanted stuff fixed at fixit nights.

Its pretty tough going organising meetings against those sort of odds. I
have personally spoken to at least  three meetings (once on email, once
on midnight commander, once on gentoo), helped organise the meetings
where Martin Baehr and the etherboot guy spoke (sorry forgotten his name
momentarily), organised the movie night with revolution OS shown,
organised dinner at the 2 fat Indians, spent hours developing a
distcc-bootcd for the gentoo installfest last year, and lots of other
stuff besides. I don't want a medal, its just that its disappointing
when we run out of speakers, and run out of people who want to turn up to
workshops. There are plenty of people out there who do lots, probably
more than me.

If people are upset at the lack of meetings they should get off their
ass and organise it. like Rik is. Good on you Rik.

(Robert this email isn't aimed at you, I just happened to reply at your
point in the thread)



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