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DATE | 2015-03-24 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] LIU Proposed Space
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Tue Mar 24 20:03:36 2015 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id 4E1EC161318; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:36 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 41BBB16131A; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:36 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB7E161318 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5E1126D3 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix2.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20529) id A1A7D33C81; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:03:35 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] LIU Proposed Space Message-ID: <20150325000335.GA25057-at-panix.com> References: <62991993-1427194436-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1799663782--at-b27.c4.bise6.blackberry> <551172C1.60005-at-panix.com> <20150324221315.GB1669-at-panix.com> <20150324234114.GC17365-at-linuxmafia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150324234114.GC17365-at-linuxmafia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com [NYLXS: HANGOUT] X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailing-list: hangout-at-nylxs.com Precedence: list List-Id: NYLXS General Discussion Forum List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:41:14PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com): > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:31:44AM -0400, einker wrote: > > > Then tell them what they want.. You are good at that. > > > You can use the http://nyhackathons.com/ as a reference and even model > > > LIU Hackathons after those already in place. > > > > > > And you are completely right (I don't say that too often to you), this is a > > > monumental > > > project management piece that that needs collaboration, event settings, > > > reaching out to businesses, > > > software vendors, students etc.... And you will most likely being using > > > non-open software as well as Free Software. > > > > > > Check out this URL > > > > > > http://news.mlh.io/your-first-hackathon-10-07-2013 > > > > Is that what you want to do? I'm passing on the closed software.. > > > > If I want to get my name in a newspaper, I can jump off a bridge. The > > object here is to serve the membership and promote Free Software in real > > life usage. > > > Just as an afterthought, you _could_ have just thanked 'einker' for the > models and resources, and not growled at him/her: Nothing about the > situation requires you to use proprietary software, certainly not > 'einker' having predicted that your hackfest would end up including it. >
And I doubt he misunderstood me, as you evidently did.
> CABAL in the SF Bay Area ran Linux/BSD installfests from about 1997 to > 2005, quitting the formal installfests because big computer flea market > vendor Robert Austin Company folded.[1] The monthly CABAL meetings are > still considered installfests, except we're at my house (which is nicer) > instead of public venues. To a degree, we've also been a hackfest all > along, as well. > > And, of course, we have to deal with proprietary software issues, > because people are perverse and bring their craziness with them. Around > 1998, I found a guy at the CABAL meeting bootlegging Partition Magic > for various other attendees because he felt they 'needed' it. I told > him, no, you don't do that sort of thing here, and also we have better > open source alternatives anyway. > > [1] http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#rac
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