Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.
Hi, As I work in the Technion I can help at February 19th, at 13:00. David On 1/28/09, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I see the little pebble I threw in this pond is still having its waves. I am overwhelmed by the responses, but I I will try to answer all messages. But, it is important for me to say that I am really really happy to see so many enthusiastic people here, and if no one objects too much, I will try to leverage this momentum and enthusiasm further. Concrete actions: *1. Linux party.* I had a discussion with Shahar Dag, the lab Engineer this morning, and we agreed on running a Linux get together event, with no formal description and content. The idea is that students and interested users will come to discuss their needs, experience and concerns with you guys. More importantly, we will be able to brainstorm further ideas beyond what is possible in a mailing list. This will not be an installation party (I have never been to one, so I do not really know what this means ;-)). Of course, people could get tips on installation in this event, etc., but we will not run formal installation. Zvi Dvir -- it would ber real nice if you could run war stories in that event. I set the date to Thursday, February 19th, at 13:00 in SSDL. Mark your calendars please. Pizzas and soft drinks will be served. Shaharr will take care of the publicity in the department. *2. Installation event. *In addition, we will run an instllation event in SSDL, right when the semester begins. We may wait for version 9.04 to come out, but the plan is to do that on the first Wednesday Noon after the semester begins. We will talk more about this during the party. *3. Live CD and Live DOK. *We will proceed with Sorana, to see if we can arrange that she makes a Live CD and a Live DOK from the lab. *4. Wiki Updates. *I would be real happy if one or two of you would help us in updating the SSDL wiki, and placing more information in it. If you are interested, just say so, and Shahar will open/activate the account, and will do so. *5. Haifa Linux Bulletin Board. *Would you be able to make a small poster of your events. We can post it in the lab for you. I am sure I missed a lot of things, but this will make a start. *Action Items for Each One of You - *Raise your hand if you will attend the party. - Raise your hand if you would like to take part in the Wiki updates. - Raise yourr hand if you would like to make a poster for the bulletin board. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.
yes, I will come On 1/29/09, David Cohen cdavi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As I work in the Technion I can help at February 19th, at 13:00. David On 1/28/09, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I see the little pebble I threw in this pond is still having its waves. I am overwhelmed by the responses, but I I will try to answer all messages. But, it is important for me to say that I am really really happy to see so many enthusiastic people here, and if no one objects too much, I will try to leverage this momentum and enthusiasm further. Concrete actions: *1. Linux party.* I had a discussion with Shahar Dag, the lab Engineer this morning, and we agreed on running a Linux get together event, with no formal description and content. The idea is that students and interested users will come to discuss their needs, experience and concerns with you guys. More importantly, we will be able to brainstorm further ideas beyond what is possible in a mailing list. This will not be an installation party (I have never been to one, so I do not really know what this means ;-)). Of course, people could get tips on installation in this event, etc., but we will not run formal installation. Zvi Dvir -- it would ber real nice if you could run war stories in that event. I set the date to Thursday, February 19th, at 13:00 in SSDL. Mark your calendars please. Pizzas and soft drinks will be served. Shaharr will take care of the publicity in the department. *2. Installation event. *In addition, we will run an instllation event in SSDL, right when the semester begins. We may wait for version 9.04 to come out, but the plan is to do that on the first Wednesday Noon after the semester begins. We will talk more about this during the party. *3. Live CD and Live DOK. *We will proceed with Sorana, to see if we can arrange that she makes a Live CD and a Live DOK from the lab. *4. Wiki Updates. *I would be real happy if one or two of you would help us in updating the SSDL wiki, and placing more information in it. If you are interested, just say so, and Shahar will open/activate the account, and will do so. *5. Haifa Linux Bulletin Board. *Would you be able to make a small poster of your events. We can post it in the lab for you. I am sure I missed a lot of things, but this will make a start. *Action Items for Each One of You - *Raise your hand if you will attend the party. - Raise your hand if you would like to take part in the Wiki updates. - Raise yourr hand if you would like to make a poster for the bulletin board. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.
Aye. Adir On 1/28/09, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I see the little pebble I threw in this pond is still having its waves. I am overwhelmed by the responses, but I I will try to answer all messages. But, it is important for me to say that I am really really happy to see so many enthusiastic people here, and if no one objects too much, I will try to leverage this momentum and enthusiasm further. Concrete actions: *1. Linux party.* I had a discussion with Shahar Dag, the lab Engineer this morning, and we agreed on running a Linux get together event, with no formal description and content. The idea is that students and interested users will come to discuss their needs, experience and concerns with you guys. More importantly, we will be able to brainstorm further ideas beyond what is possible in a mailing list. This will not be an installation party (I have never been to one, so I do not really know what this means ;-)). Of course, people could get tips on installation in this event, etc., but we will not run formal installation. Zvi Dvir -- it would ber real nice if you could run war stories in that event. I set the date to Thursday, February 19th, at 13:00 in SSDL. Mark your calendars please. Pizzas and soft drinks will be served. Shaharr will take care of the publicity in the department. *2. Installation event. *In addition, we will run an instllation event in SSDL, right when the semester begins. We may wait for version 9.04 to come out, but the plan is to do that on the first Wednesday Noon after the semester begins. We will talk more about this during the party. *3. Live CD and Live DOK. *We will proceed with Sorana, to see if we can arrange that she makes a Live CD and a Live DOK from the lab. *4. Wiki Updates. *I would be real happy if one or two of you would help us in updating the SSDL wiki, and placing more information in it. If you are interested, just say so, and Shahar will open/activate the account, and will do so. *5. Haifa Linux Bulletin Board. *Would you be able to make a small poster of your events. We can post it in the lab for you. I am sure I missed a lot of things, but this will make a start. *Action Items for Each One of You - *Raise your hand if you will attend the party. - Raise your hand if you would like to take part in the Wiki updates. - Raise yourr hand if you would like to make a poster for the bulletin board. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.
- Raise your hand if you would like to take part in the Wiki updates. ☝ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.
So we have I think the critical mass for our get together, with Dotan, Adir, Amichai, Sorana, Melissa, and maybe even Eran and Zvi (I must have forgotten a few names...) Thanks guys. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party? Yes! Mark your calendars... Say YES if you will come.
I'd love to come but I'm pretty busy during the noons most days. I can make one available on demand but I prefer thursdays. In all accounts, Feburary 19th is right in the middle between the tests of my two hardest subjects this semester so I can't promise I'll come to that. -- Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance. And no one ever said being a heretic was easy. May we meet in Less Interesting Times... http://eran.geek.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party????
Hi Dotan, On 1/27/09, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: However, I see two problems with the date of the party: 1) The Technion will be in exams at the time planned. I suggest that the party wait until April, when people will have less on their heads. Having (another) instaparty is a good idea. Most of the students have exams now. However, it will be good if we have our first meeting on February 19th (switched from 18th) as Yossi suggested, so we will develop ideas and make better meetings later. We have to start from something :) 2) Kubuntu 9.04 is being released in April with KDE 4.2. I have four people that I have told them that I will only change their WIndows XP Cracked Edition computers to Linux when that release is made. KDE is much more comfortable that Gnome for Windows converts, and KDE 4.2 is 95% of what KDE 3.5.x was, plus a whole lot more. However, the KDE 4.1 in the current Kubuntu release is _not_ meant for end users (and it shows) and moving someone to the all-but-abandoned KDE 3.x branch is not good at this point. Also, we don't have to wait that long, when Fedora 10 does all that great work. I agree that the current Kubuntu release is problematic (as well as some of its earlier releases, by the way). We shall talk about this as well. Adir ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party????
Hi Yossi, On 1/27/09, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: With regard to the parties. I think it is a good idea to have a gatherving event. I would not have picked the name party myself, but since it was used in the past, why not redo it. The name is chosen due to historical reasons. We can choose any other name later. Does Wednesday 12:30-14:30 fit your schedules? It would be real nice if we could have a Linux event every two weeks or so that time in the lab, and this particular time slot woudl assure nice attendance. Tentively I set Feb 18th for the first such event. Sounds good to me. This is what I have in mind. - Get together, meet, mingle and have fun. - Pizzas/Soft drinks... - Help participants install Linux. - Help participants with Linux issues. - Discuss the DOK/Live CD ideas. We can also host a lecture while helping people (maybe at the seminar room near the lab?), so they won't get too bored :) Adir ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party????
Yossi, Adir, You can count me in! I have lots of ides, since I was thinking about a similar event for a long time now. Cheers! .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html .::. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 18:56, Adir Abraham a...@hamakor.org.il wrote: Hi Yossi, On 1/27/09, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: With regard to the parties. I think it is a good idea to have a gatherving event. I would not have picked the name party myself, but since it was used in the past, why not redo it. The name is chosen due to historical reasons. We can choose any other name later. Does Wednesday 12:30-14:30 fit your schedules? It would be real nice if we could have a Linux event every two weeks or so that time in the lab, and this particular time slot woudl assure nice attendance. Tentively I set Feb 18th for the first such event. Sounds good to me. This is what I have in mind. - Get together, meet, mingle and have fun. - Pizzas/Soft drinks... - Help participants install Linux. - Help participants with Linux issues. - Discuss the DOK/Live CD ideas. We can also host a lecture while helping people (maybe at the seminar room near the lab?), so they won't get too bored :) Adir ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Party????
I see that I am a bit late. I would like to help with the 'party' as well. I have done Linux installs for about 20 people, even some at the Technion, and of course I am the 'go to' person afterwards. So I am familiar with many of the issues new Linux users face, especially Hebrew- and Israeli- related issues. However, I see two problems with the date of the party: 1) The Technion will be in exams at the time planned. I suggest that the party wait until April, when people will have less on their heads. 2) Kubuntu 9.04 is being released in April with KDE 4.2. I have four people that I have told them that I will only change their WIndows XP Cracked Edition computers to Linux when that release is made. KDE is much more comfortable that Gnome for Windows converts, and KDE 4.2 is 95% of what KDE 3.5.x was, plus a whole lot more. However, the KDE 4.1 in the current Kubuntu release is _not_ meant for end users (and it shows) and moving someone to the all-but-abandoned KDE 3.x branch is not good at this point. I say that we wait three months, and can therefore deliver a better product at a more comfortable time. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
