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Re: LUG activities
Hi,
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From: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>
Cc: Linux-Il Mailing List <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 9:35 PM
Subject: LUG activities
>well, the mailing list is around the 600 people I last heard, and 300 more
>in the announce list (many on both, so I don't count it) and knowing the
>good stuff being discussed there, people from all over the world join the
>list (I think at least 3 people from this list joined since I forwarded a
>few messages). all in all, I estimate 450-500 of those are people from
>this area, 50 are actually active on the list and not just lurking, the
>meetings usually putt 150-250 people, peeks were when Linus showed up
>(~450) and in the Taos Mountain famous meeting "Future of Linux", where
>Intel, and supposedly Oracle, changed their mind about Linux support, I
>saw around 850-900 people, some reports said there were close to 1000.
see, that's what I meant. Last years Jerusalem meeting draw about 20, this
years TA "dinner" about 12 ppl. No lecturers, no head-hunters and not enough
ppl. It was just a nice meeting to chat and get to know each other
personally (very positive), but there wasn't any of the cool stuff you tell
us ...
>
>ages are college to 70, I'm guessing the average is 30, 32 or so, and I'm
nice, we are youger, it seems to me.
>guessing the vast majority are Unix professionals. our meetings pull in
>head hunters and HR people from the many corporations around (surprise...)
well, if we would get this important (dream ..., dream ...)
Schlomo