Re: [LUG] Software Freedom Day is VERY soon.

1: "Hello, welcome to software freedom day, do you have any questions?"
2: "Hello, yes I have one question. How can I get involved with Linux?"
1: "You can create packages, write documentation, design icons and themes, attend LUG meets and help the community"
2: "I like to maintain packages, who should i speak to for more information?"
1: "Come with me and I will introduce you to him."
2: "Hey package maintainer guy, I want to get involved with the community and help by maintaining packages, can you offer any advice?"
...
...
1: "ohh i am sorry, he didn't want to come to our silly meetings... Perhaps you'd like to hear my theory on the inner workings of a black hole instead."

UNITE - It would be great to meet the faces behind the mails, we all have a story to share and collectively we are quite a force... It is the right time for foss to become under the spot light, with so many issues with security, trust and censorship online that this may well be the last year we get to keep our online freedoms and the web the way we knew, know and known it. It is changing, so are the devices we use to connect to it.
It's the Linux users social event of the year!!! Lets all invite a friend or two and enjoy some tea and biscuits in the last of the summer sun.

On Sep 7, 2013 1:26 AM, "Tom Brough" <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 07/09/13 00:54, Simon Avery wrote:

If your NOT even prepared to do that .... what are you doing on this list in the first place?

Er, talking about linux and sharing clue.

I've never claimed to be sociable and the level of help I decide to give to this or any other hobby is rather down to me. Appreciate your passion, but ease up on the emotional blackmail please!

Perhaps you are right.Â

The intention was to deliver a gentle kick up the back side not a nuclear bomb.

If you genuinely feel you cant do any more then that's ok....

But I would ask you to consider that as there are 200+ members in this mail group, if each one just emailed 1 friend and invited them to SFD this weekend, it would reach more people than 3 event organisers could reach in a whole year. Thats not to say they will come ... but it does plant a tiny seed.

After all if we cant cloud source for SFD where can we cloud source?

And remember more new blood = fresh ideas and solutions to common problems.

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