Re: [Haifux] Honey, I shrunk the club

2006-03-17 Thread Shachar Raindel
Same for me: I used to come a lot, than the big, green monster (IDF) came and dragged me to the center of Israel, to program for Windows (yack :( ). It is kind of hard to get to Haifux on Monday, when you finish working late in the evening in the center of Israel. Shachar On 3/16/06, [EMAIL

Re: [Haifux] Honey, I shrunk the club

2006-03-17 Thread Orna Agmon
Allowing for short lectures is a nice idea. The Lightning Talks event we had was a big success (thanks to the seriousness of the lecturers). As I have seen, it is not always like that, since people tend to not take seriously the preparation of a 5-10 minute talk. The outcome may be a two hour

Re: [Haifux] Money

2006-03-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Orna Agmon wrote: 4.In order to get people who are interested in Linux to come to Haifux, listen and contribute, we need to PR Linux where Linux is of intererest, in English as well as in Hebrew: Ah, that was the next issue I wanted to talk about. I got to know about Haifux because of a

[Haifux] re-question: a talk about using FOSS-only in a startup-chik

2006-03-17 Thread guy keren
i proposed this once as a hole-plague, and i propose this again now. the talk will cover how a very small startup-chik used only FOSS tools to develope its product (which is proprietary). i'll discuss the thought processes, briefly cover the tools used, how non-foss programmers took this, and