--- Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ask more specific questions then, if you feel he's answering > fuzzily.
I will be. > Understood, but I look at it this way Chris...I run the user group > on my > own time, for a cause that I believe in. Yes, I believe in my job, > and it > is related to some extent...but I am not paid in any way to work on > OpenSolaris. But you do work at Sun, and Sun benefits from Solaris adoption... Alright, not going there. I appreciate your non-paid efforts. :) > I provide a user group that is completely free to users, and I get > engineers to speak at the group, on their own time, they're not > paid for > doing it in most cases. > My manager eats the cost of the call-in which is free in the U.S. That's very nice of your manager doing that. My manager would never do that. What's the chance of your manager eating the cost of a recording/transcript then? > I am able to do this in the area where I live, maybe coincidence, > but > that's the way it works for me. Sarcastic, but makes sense. > Aside from coming over to your house and reading a bedtime story to > you > about OpenSolaris, I don't think my wife is gonna go for that... > WTF can I do to make it easier for you and > others in > the community to attend? I don't want to attend; I want to know what was said. > You could always start your own > OpenSolaris user > group and have at it yourself, proving how wrong I've been with > SVOSUG, > and seeing just how easy it is to coordinate everything yourself. > That > might prove to be a great learning experience for you, have you not > done > that type of work in the past.<wink> Not interested. I can barely get together with my existing friends. Ok. I was a bit demanding, flippant even. I'm sorry I upset you and I want to make sure you know that I appreciate your efforts for the OpenSolaris community. Taking a step back, though, I see that the Local User Group concept is showing its age in the tiny digital flat world we live in. Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.christophermahan.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
