LINUX EXPO MICHIGAN (fwd)
Sean
picasso@madflower.com
Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:16:11 -0500 (EST)
Are you going out of your way to demonstrate you don't have to be wise or
ethical to be president? *ducks*
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> 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
>
> --- End Ed's reply ---
>
>
>
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