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Dinner



OK,

I read all the messages from Peter and Miki. The idea of small, local diners
is to get people from one palce together in an informal way (8-12 ppl is
perfect for this !) in the hope that then they will continue meeting on a
regular base. It is much easier to go to a diner in your town for 1 or 2
hours than do the same somewhere else where you drive 2+ hours in addition
to meet for 1 or 2 hours. It should also be a place for general social
smalltalk among friends and not restricted to Linux related topics. I see
the whole thing more as a drive to meet interesting ppl with similar
interests/hobbies etc. than to swap the latest Linux secrets. After all we
do this all the time (and much better) by email and this list. As I said
once already: I joined once a WEEKLY Linux-diner in a pub in my home-town
and it was very socially and not so much Linux-fixed and I think that is the
only way ppl will be interested in coming, since discussing Linux is fine
like this (mail).

Miki: When you have your list of Jerusalem-Linuxers, I'll be glad to
organize such a diner (there isn"t much to do, after all).

Schlomo
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Peres <plp@actcom.co.il>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Dinner - suggestion

>On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
>> Is there any knowladge how many ILUG members live in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
>> and Haifa areas ? For most people it'S too difficult to leave their
>
>No, it's a state secret.
>
>> Therefore my suggestion: Let's have LOCAL linux diners in all THREE
>> areas.
>
>Finally a sane suggestion.
>
>> I can't believe that there are not enough people to fill a nice
>> diner in each area.
>
>a) What is nice dinner, knowing what we know about vegans, kashrut and the
>fact that we're more different than the ppl. in the Babel legend. Even our
>email headers are different enough so as to cause problems sometimes ;)
>
>b) What is fill, knowing that a small joint such as a provate kosher resto
>is 'filled' when more than 8 ppl sit at a table as they can't communicate
>decently otherwise, and that joints such as Pizza Hut accomodate even
>less per sitting opportutnity.
>
>Seriously, I think that organizing an installation party, with take-away
>food to taste ordered delivered at it would be much more of a success, in
>any area. The delivery order would be placed in the 1st 30 mins of the
>meeting, which would let it arrive by the end of it.
>
>comments ?
>
>Peter
>
>(TA)
>
>
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