Re: [W2l] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-10-09 Thread Leon Mintz
צודק. בכל אופן אני בעד לכלול את המילה עולם כי זה מעביר מסר חזק יותר. ~לאון On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Friday 11 September 2009 14:54:20 Leon Mintz wrote: IMHO, we should also pay a careful attention to how the title will sound in Hebrew. I

Re: [W2l] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
When talking with someone a few days ago, I had a moment of Serendipity (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity ). Why don't we do a Welcome-to- FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) this year instead of Welcome-to-Linux? We could show people some cool stuff about FOSS in both Linux and

Re: [W2l] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
IMHO, we should also pay a careful attention to how the title will sound in Hebrew. I suggest: ברוכים הבאים לעולם של תוכנה חופשית In Morphius' voice. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: [W2l] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
ׁHi Dotan! On Sunday 13 September 2009 09:43:00 Dotan Cohen wrote: When talking with someone a few days ago, I had a moment of Serendipity (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity ). Why don't we do a Welcome-to- FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) this year instead of

Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! When talking with someone a few days ago, I had a moment of Serendipity (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity ). Why don't we do a Welcome-to- FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) this year instead of Welcome-to-Linux? We could show people some cool stuff about FOSS in both

Re: Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
So what do you think? Am I crazy or am I on to something? Two people I talked with liked the idea, and a different one had some doubts. I think as long as you present it in a positive way, i.e. the benefits of FOSS and the FOSS philosophy, without getting into a FOSS/non FOSS debate,

Re: Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread Ori Idan
I think we should keep it welcome to Linux as people already know firefox and some of them know Open Office. We should introduce Linux. If we make it welcome to FOSS we actually encourage people to keep on using proprietary software (windows). -- Ori Idan On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM,

Re: Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 11 September 2009 13:26:32 Ohad Lutzky wrote: I agree. Welcome to Linux and FOSS should be the name, and a short (no more than 20 words) explanation of the name should preclude the event. Welcome to FOSS may have been a name I used out of convenience. We can call it Welcome to Open

Re: [Haifux] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:26:32PM +0300, Ohad Lutzky wrote: I agree. Welcome to Linux and FOSS should be the name, and a short (no more than 20 words) explanation of the name should preclude the event. Now try pronouncing that :-) It's not that short. -- Tzafrir Cohen |

Re: [W2l] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 11 September 2009 14:54:20 Leon Mintz wrote: IMHO, we should also pay a careful attention to how the title will sound in Hebrew. I suggest: ברוכים הבאים לעולם של תוכנה חופשית Which means Welcome to the World of Free Software. The problem with saying תוכנה חופשית is that some

Re: Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread Lior Kaplan
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all! When talking with someone a few days ago, I had a moment of Serendipity (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity ). Why don't we do a Welcome-to- FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) this year instead of