<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Seriously, GLLUG should just drop this shit. For the last few years we have been busting our asses for Penguicon, and we always get criticism back, let the take care of it, the whole event is turning in another direction anyway. The good old times are over, it's not about Open Source anymore, GLLUG resources should be focused on local education(some of you remember the idea of going to schools doing panels) and other OS projects. <div><br></div><div>I got sick loading equipment in the rain along with a few more brave volunteers for Penguicon, and in return we get nagging back.</div><div><br></div><div>With this note, I am going to be filtering out all email from this list with Penguicon in the topic, this turned into a pile of crap in my humble opinion..</div><div><br></div><div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "> Eduardo Cesconetto - <a href="mailto:eduardo@cesconetto.com">eduardo@cesconetto.com</a> - <a href="http://www.cesconetto.com">www.cesconetto.com</a></span></div></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On May 19, 2009, at 1:39 PM, David Singer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Other OS's could be fun but who is going to pony up the money? By then<br>Snow Leopard and Windows 7 will be out which means the cheapest Mac<br>hardware is likely to run around $500/machine (very used) and probably<br>$250 for the most basic windows machine.<br><br>David<br><br>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ron Blanchett <<a href="mailto:muteid10t@gmail.com">muteid10t@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">The computer lounge has always been Penguicon's Show, GLLUG was just allowed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to do with it as they pleased.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This year that is changing and Randy (ConChair 2010) is the man to talk to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on how he is changing that.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Speculation will get you no where, Direct, Clear, Concise questions will get<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">you answer.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This list is not the place for those questions either because I can<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">guarantee you that Randy will not get them if you ask him to answer them<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">here.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Ron<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 5/19/09, Clay Dowling <<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com">clay@lazarusid.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, 19 May 2009, Stanley C. Mortel wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ron is exactly right.  I encourage everyone to readjust their way of<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thinking<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">about the computer lounge at the Con.  It is, first, foremost, and in<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">its<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">entirety, one of the many facets of Penguicon and under the control of<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Con Chair.  This year it looks like Marshal will be volunteering to head<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">up<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the lounge, as a Con volunteer.  We can all volunteer to help Marshal,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">as<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I think that's the bit that hasn't been clear.  Previously the lounge was<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">pretty much GLLUG's show, and this year it looks like it will be brought<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in as an actual Penguicon event.  Which does, indeed, make it the Con<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Chair's show.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">And hey, if folks have good ideas for making the lounge better, that's all<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to the good.  If the ideas can come at us early we, or whoever else<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">volunteers for it, can get started on making it happen.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Clay<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">linux-user mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Ron<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">linux-user mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br>http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>