Avui, Dimarts 14 Maig 2002 15:05, no tenieu res mes que fer i me vareu enviar aquest e-mail
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 14:41, Sinner from the Prairy wrote: > > What do you think about an Installfest specialy directed to the Asian > > community in the Triangle? Y'all know about Red Flag Linux, Hancom office > > and other GNU/Linux/OpenSource initiatives in Asia. > Personally, I think we should help people of any race, creed, or belief > system at the installfest. If they happen to want to install one of the > Asian distros, more power to them, and I/we will gladly help. OK > However, having an installfest for a particular Ethnic, Racial, > Religious or etc. group falls into the anti-discriminatory clauses of > the AoI and against my personal beliefs. We're all Linux users here, > regardless of national or ethnic origin, right? Yes. > If we went through with this suggestion, would we then have a > African-American installfest? How about a Latino installfest? How about > an installfest aimed at the homosexual community? A Catholic > installfest? A women's installfest? > I'm sure we've had members from all of these groups attend our meetings > - should we have an installfest targeted at their demographic? And hey, > maybe there are people out there that aren't happy with one of the > previously mentioned groups - how would a "targeted" installfest affect > their viewing of TriLUG and the linux community as a whole? > > If his goes OK, we can start to have schools and "theme" installfests. > I'm not against this idea, though. if a group asks for our help in > throwing an installfest, I'm all for it. However, I will not accept > unless *ANYONE* who wants to come in and install Linux can do so. What a mess that I have made! I didn't explicitely said so, but I meant so. Whoever knows me can tell you that I do not discriminate or anything like that. I guess I don't really get the tensions that those topics arise in the USA. I never meant an installfest *only* for Asian people. I ask for public excuses if someone felt insulted / injuried in any way. If that was what you understood by reading my message, is my fault for not being more clear. And for not being 100% proficient in English (no, babelfish does not help.) Let me try to put it in another words: Liyuan asked me if Trilug would help in an Installfest where he can bring many friends to Linux. Such Installfest will be open to everyone, even to big'n'bearded, green-eyed, bike-riding white folks. Well, open to anyone that shows up with a computer. Anyone means anyone. Yes, even MSCE could attend. > That being said, how about we do our next installfest in August? That's > about three months from now, and would be right on time for the third > quarter. How about we do it at UNC (if they are willing to host us) and > help *ANYONE* who shows up install whatever distro they want. Exactly. Most probably we can Liyun help in getting UNC support for it. I just remembered that someone from ILS (Information and Library Science) Dept. from UNC-Chapel Hill was interested in doing something similar. So, with those corrections to my previous message, what do you say? Salut, Sinner -- RedHat QA Test Engineer -- Running RedHat 7.3 on i386smp http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
