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RE: Kinetica, Installation Parties and linux-il becoming an AMUTA (was: Hi)




--- On Sun, 16 Jun 1996 16:22:14 +0300 (IDT)  Shay Rojansky 
<roji@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>Hi, people.
>
>I'm back from a nasty test period (one more this year, though).
>
>I have sent a summary of a meeting with another company, 
Kinematica, and
>I'd like to talk about some stuff that's on our agenda.

#### Please note that it is Kinetica, and not as specified above. 
The full name is "Kinetica Internetting Solutions".

>
>First, regarding installation parties. I think this idea was first 
raised
>by Harvey, and I think it's a great one. To summarize, the idea is
>to collect newbies and other interested people in one place with a 
good
>solid Internet connection. Have them bring in their computers if 
necessary,
>and do various things to help newbies learn. This includes both 
installing
>for them (and making sure they understand) and perhaps a lecture.
>
>I'm 99% sure the Hebrew University Highschool can provide the
>framework needed. We have a nice 64Kbps LAN connectivity to the 
net,
>and the disks to hold Slackware 3.0.0 for NFS installations. I also
>think there are quite a few people around Jerusalem to be there and
>help. I know Kinematica volunteered their place for an installation
>party in Tel-Aviv, but this needs to be checked out further. If 
anyone
>has any suggestions... Let's push this along.
>
>Second, about being an Amuta. I know this is a touchy subject, but 
my
>conversation with Kinematica and some other thoughts convinced me 
this
>is the way to go. However, I am unfamiliar with the legal meanings 
and
>obligations (or rather, complete ignorant), and since Kinematica 
offered
>to help us there, I ask whoever is out there to post the legal 
meaning
>of an Amuta in layman terms BEFORE anyone starts arguing.
>

#### About becoming AMUTA, we do think that this is right path to 
go. We will use our experience gained while forming another AMUTA, 
and post in the following days some general description about what 
is it, why it is a good idea, what is needed, etc. 

>That's it for now.
>
>Shay
>
>--
>Shay Rojansky, roji@cs.huji.ac.il                 Finger for PGP 
public key
>
>
>

-----------------End of Original Message-----------------

Aviv.

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Aviv Siegel <aviv@kinetica.com>           16/06/96 20:50:09
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