LINUX EXPO MICHIGAN (fwd)

[Edward Glowacki]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Sean wrote:
> I get this Linux stuff everyonce in a while. I am not exactly sure where
> it comes from. I seriously doubt the club is interested in this..
> But I will defer to your more wise, presidential, and ethical treatment to
> such occurances. =)

My wise, presidential, and ethical response is mixed in below with
the message... ;)  

To bring the rest of you up to speed, the above quote was from
Sean, who received an email from skyevents.com.  That email is
quoted below in the "Ed's reply" section, along with my response.
Keep in mind that my reply is directed back to the original sender
as if I had received the message from them personally, and that I
would never actually send this reply back to the person.  It's a
joke, parody, farce, whatever you want to call it.  I think you
all know me well enough to realize that it's not serious.  =)  That
being said, read on, and please, no comments on my grammar or
spelling. ;)

--- Begin Ed's reply ---
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:57:02 -0500
> From: Andrea Roy <andrea.roy@skyevents.com>
> To: picasso@madflower.com
> Subject: LINUX EXPO MICHIGAN
> 
> Dear Linux Fans,
> 
> My name is Andrea and for those who haven’t heard from me I am responsible
> of LINUX EXPO tradeshows in the Americas.

Hmm... the non-printable apostrophe (in "haven~Rt") is a relatively
sure sign that your email originated on a non-Linux box.  Why a
company who is so involved in Linux wouldn't be using Linux, or at
least make sure their emails are readable on a Linux box is beyond
me...

> SkyEvents : a team with worldwide presence at your service and organizers of
> 10 LINUX EXPO tradeshows.  Based in Paris, Montreal and Brazil, the Sky
> Events teams have demonstrated their expertise in organizing many
> international seminars and exhibitions.  For more information on us, please
> visit www.linux-expo.com

Maybe I'll visit, maybe I won't, but you don't have to tell me "for
more information visit..." because I expect that if I see a URL
and decide to visit it, there will be more information.  If not,
then WTF do you have a website for?

> Presently, we are analysing the possibility of doing two days conference in
> California.  We don't know yet wich city would be more approriate. We would
> do a road show of two days conference per city and would do 10 cities in a
> year.  The conference would be very technicals and non marketing.  Companies
> would sponsor the event for the 2 days (about 5000$ to sponsor) and would
> have the posssibility to talk about 40 minutes per day.  The entrance for
> this two days would be about 175 US.

OK, a couple of comments here.  First of all, if you are trying to
organize support for a professional conference, make sure your
information is presented professionally.  Check your spelling and
grammar.  "wich" should be "which", 5000$ should be $5000, 175 US
should be $175 US, "posssibility" (misspelled) would probably be
better worded as "opportunity", "this two days" might be better as
"this two day event" or something else, just to name a few of the
problems found in this paragraph alone.

Like *all* my email messages (even including "Yo, whassup?" messages
to friends), this one has relatively good grammer, spelling, and
punctuation.  I generally expect professional announcements like
yours to be *at least* as proper as my own casual email.

Now, on to the content of the paragraph... As far as I can tell
from the presentation of the information, every 36.5 days you start
a new conference.  In addition, while you are in the city doing
the conference, you also do a "road show" of two day conferences,
presumably at different hotels around town.  This might explain
the 36.5 day cycle.  Also, "The entrance for this two days would
be about 175 US" makes no sense, and as best I can decipher translates
to "In order to participate in the existance of the two days the
conference is held, you must pass through about 175 United States."
Given that there are currently only 50 states united here, we have
some growing and/or splitting to do in order to gain "entrance for
this two days".


> For this matter, we really need to have your LUG support.   What we would
> ask you is first: your opinion on this project and second: if you agree to
> have your LUG sponsor the event. (By sponsor we mean link, web support, no
> money involved...)

first: I have already shared my opinion of this project.  Need I add more?
second: If you would ask us, we would probably not agree, but since
you only forshadowed the fact that you *might* ask us this question
in the future, I will say that "We might probably not agree" 

> I really hope that you can come back to me this week.

I wasn't aware that I left you.  In fact, I wasn't aware that we
were ever together in the first place.  Come to think of it, do I
know you?  Unless I suddenly wake up from my amnesia and find out
that we were past lovers, I highly doubt that I will ever "come
back" to you.

> Thanks for your cooperation

Hey, no problem.  It was fun.  We'll have to do this again sometime.

> Andrea
> 
> Director, Sky Events Amériques.
> Andrea.roy@skyevents.com
> and
> Annie Savaria
> Project Manager
> Annie.savaria@skyevents.com
> 
> Tel: 514 842 2221
> Cel: 514 999 9792
> www.linux-expo.com
> 
> Madrid    April, 4-5, 2001- Espana
> Road Show East Country  April 23-27, 2001
> Sao Paulo May 9-10, 2001- Brazil
> www.linuxexpobrasil.com
> Shanghai  May 15-18, 2001- China
> Milan     June 6-7, 2001- Italy
> 
> 2002
> Paris     January 30-31-1, 2002- France
> Amsterdam February 19,20, 2002- Netherlands
> 
> Very Soon Linux Expo
> Mexico, Germany, U.K, Singapore

Wow, a 26 line signature.  That's one line for every letter of the
English alphabet!  I'm confused though, the message is from "Andrea
Roy" and is signed "Andrea", but according to the rest of your
signature, you are known as both "Andrea" and "Annie Savaria".
You are also promoting 3 different domains, skyevents.com,
linux-expo.com, and linuxexpobrasil.com.  Hmm... must be a multiple
personality thing, eh?

So like, wow, I don't need to visit your website anymore, you've
provided all the "more info" info right here in your signature!
Some advice though: you might want to put the name of the country
(yeah, the last word on the line) over next to the name of the city
(yeah, the first word on the line).  You see, those two pieces of
information are generally linked together to define the exact
location of a populace of people.  

Also, I'm very interested in the "Very Soon Linux Expo".  It would
be great to know about all the vaporware, I mean "Very Soon" Linux
products and technologies.

While I'm here, I might as well inform you that we too are holding
two days conferences.  That's right, two days a month we meet and
talk about Linux and stuff.  Just like your conference, our meetings
are "very technicals and non marketing".  We do road shows too,
since all of our members travel throughout the area, carrying Linux
knowledge wherever they go.  Would you events help sponsor our LUG?
(by sponsor equipment donations, bandwidth, definately money
involved.)

Thank you for making me aware of your conferences.  I'll be sure
to avoid them in the future.

-- 
Edward Glowacki				glowack2@msu.edu
GLLUG President				http://www.gllug.org
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
                -- Jules de Gaultier

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