<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Nice one...that's pretty cool stuff.. well done, and keep spreading the word.<br><br>I am amazed how this thing has caught on, and to think everyone though we we're <br>drunken fools in the begging... we were drunk, but not fools.<br><br>hehehehehehehehehehe<br><br>;-)<br><br>Laters,<br>Lee<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 25/11/09, Arron M Finnon <i><finux@finux.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Arron M Finnon <finux@finux.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Congratulations to Arron<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Wednesday, 25 November, 2009, 8:59<br><br><div id="yiv105258738">
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Rick Moynihan wrote:
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<pre>2009/11/24 Hazel McKendrick <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:dreamisdead0@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=dreamisdead0@gmail.com"><dreamisdead0@gmail.com></a>:<br> </pre>
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<pre>Since I figured he's probably going to be too modest to make a post<br>about this himself, huge congratulations to Arron for winning at an<br>award at the Open Source Awards for “Exemplary advocacy of Open Source<br>software”.<br><br>I'm sure everyone will agree, given all the work he has done at<br>Abertay Linux Society and SFD, he really deserves this recognition.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.finux.co.uk/blog/?p=55">http://www.finux.co.uk/blog/?p=55</a><br><br>Good job :D<br> </pre>
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<pre>Yes, congratulations Arron, hopefully the award in some way<br>compensates for all those years herding cats... I mean errr Linux<br>geeks! It's clear that under Arron's stewardship we've become (by<br>far) one of the most successful Linux groups in the UK; something<br>which is perhaps indicative of how hard a job it is! Arron's proved<br>that herding cats is indeed possible... and thankfully that you don't<br>have to be EDS to do it:<br><br><a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8</a><br><br>Purely by chance I happened to meet one of the awards organisers<br>(Alastair Broom) at a management course on Friday/Saturday and he<br>spoke very highly... maybe even enviously? :-) of the Dundee Linux<br>scene. So again, congratulations to Arron and everyone else who make<br>the Dundee Linux/FLOSS scene what it
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Well thanks guys for all the kind messages of congratulations. As I've
said before i was taken a bit by surprise for the whole thing, from
start to end. I'm very proud to have played a part in the growth of
the Linux Society, and to witness the rejuvenation of TayLUG. I played
such a small part in the end, and without sound like an ubuntu
community manager, it really is all down to the community. I suppose
really what i'm saying is if there wasn't a need for it to be happening
then we wouldn't have had a reason to do it.<br>
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I echo Rick's sentiments about really its everyone that contributes to
our linux community, and it is a community we should be proud of.<br>
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Thanks Guys<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature">-- <br>Arron "finux" Finnon<br><br>Finux.co.uk/blog - Twitter.com/f1nux - facebook.com/finux<br><br>Podcasting for HPR, shows can be found at;<br><a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=85">http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=85</a><br><br><br><br></pre>
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