Sridhar, There's really only one benchmark that matters here, and it applies to all speakers at SLUG anyway: "Will your be presentation be about Open Source?", and I know the committee would rationally apply this benchmark regardless of who the presenter might be.
If they're prepared to come in good faith to talk about Open Source (and yes naysayers, they do have quite a bit to talk about!), then rock on. Pity that Sam won't be there -- hopefully someone else from their Open Source team can be, as opposed to the local non-tech randoms and product evangelists usually doing this kind of stuff. Those who don't feel comfortable with it, and would prefer that we do not engage at all, can find somewhere else to play with themselves instead. :-) Thanks, - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "Do they speak English in 'What'?" - Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
