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Re: Food and Drinks are on the house! (kidding, they are not even , on, topic)
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Eliyahu Skoczylas wrote:
> Ira Abramov wrote:
[... snipped ...]
> > A dinner on the 12th, Jerusalem, 20:30, Peperoni's (same place we threw
> > Viktorie's farewell party)
[... snipped ...]
> I will NOT attend (because of kashruth.) Haval, since I'm a Yerushalmi.
>
> > and a meeting on the 24th in TA, at some pub or whatever (Omer is
> > organizing :)
>
> If Omer will find a kosher place, I will TRY to attend.
> I will be happy to tell about the Linux Kongress in Germany, and show
> photographs. It was really neat! :-)
I don't really have the time to organize anything like this, sorry. The
most which I could try to do is to look for a pub near the Tel Aviv
Central Bus Station.
But I think that it'll not do to have two Linux-IL meetings within so
short time - several people will be too busy to attend both of them. So
I'll go for whatever the majority chooses and the way discussion is
shaping up so far, it points at June 12 evening.
About kashrut: I do not keep kashrut, but since I have my own
accessibility difficulties (I need volunteer notetakers to be able to
fully participate in the dinner), I won't ignore the accessibility problems
of the datiim (due to the kashrut issue).
I find to be reprehensible the position of those who said they'll boycott
the Linux-IL dinner unless it is being held in a non-Kosher restaurant.
Be reasonable! The main point of the dinner is to get together people
who share the Linux hobby/profession. If anyone loves non-kosher food
(like yummy shrimps), he can go with his friends to a non-kosher
restaurant at some other time.
This is not as if we wanted to discuss production of sexually-explicit
stuff using Linux systems, and the datiim forbidding this kind of
discussion during dinner in a kosher restaurant. I won't support the
datiim if they would make trouble over this kind of issue. But food?
Get real!
If it is decided to hold the dinner in a non-kosher restaurant, I'll not
come to it. But if the dinner will be held in a kosher restaurant, with
participation of the datiim (and 2 notetaking volunteers for me), after
returning to home from the kosher Linux-IL dinner I'll dip a piece of meat
in milk, bless the stuff (perl 5 style or not perl 5 style) and eat it.
--- Omer
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