<quote who="Jiri Baum"> > > > If so, perhaps professionals should be asking the questions and > > > follow-up questions, not random geeks. > > > Oh. Real nice. To both the professionals *and* geeks who go to LUG > > events. > > The professionals (journalists, negotiators, lawyers) spend years learning > and honing their skills, just as we spend years improving ours. We're > likely to do about as well conducting a potentially hostile interview as a > lawyer or journalist writing a subtle piece of code - not very well at > all.
You're saying "we" as if you think this represents all of us... > If there is, in fact, a possible positive outcome, let's make sure that it > happens. Having a conversation. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that. The venue is unlikely to provoke a PR earthquake for anyone involved. - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "I hear Tom Wolfe's speaking at Lincoln Center. [...] Well, of course we're going to fling poo at him!" - Mason the Chimpanzee, Madagascar -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
