[Gllug] SmoothWall meeting next weekend London

[Jake Jellinek]

Not in a million years.

Jake.


--On Monday, December 03, 2001 14:05:28 +0000 "George at College" 
<georgesaxby at racc.org.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>  just passing this on.
>  an offer of a venue?
>
>
>
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: [users] SmoothWall meeting next weekend London
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:42:06 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Richard Morrell <richard at smoothwall.org>
> To: <users at lists.smoothwall.org>
>
>
> I am proposing holding an OPEN SmoothWall meeting in London next weekend,
> any of you wanting to attend are more than welcome.
>
> I NEED A VENUE - A college lecture theatre, a college room or a company
> basement/office in the LONDON area WITH ethernet or internet access that I
> am happy to pay for - if anyone can help please email me offline asap.
> Failing this I will work out a venue.
>
> One of the reasons for doing this is to personally thank any of you who
> have donated and can get to the meeting. I am spending one entire day this
> week doing NOTHING but hand write christmas cards and letters to ALL who
> have donated and written to us whose Postal addresses we have. I am
> ashamed that I havent had time before now to do this but time has been a
> luxury I havent had, even personal sleep has been scheduled to around
> 14-16 hrs per week (work that one out).
>
> I have thought long and hard about whether to continue a GPL version of
> SmoothWall and its really now down to Lawrence. My gut feeling is
> SmoothWall GPL is too good and decent a project to shelve. If we can
> launch online.smoothwall.org soon and see a revenue stream from users
> allowing us to at least cover some basic costs then we should do it.
>
> Our GPL project has made a difference to so many people. Its gone to war
> with Mandrake and won, its shown SuSE to be a profiteering bunch of twits
> who obviously just don't get the equation that charging 1000+ Euros for a
> CD ROM which really doesnt justify its price tag, when compared with
> SmoothWall.
>
> Next weeks meeting will be important, Neuro is flying down from Glasgow,
> DanC will be flying out to South Africa on a well deserved break but a
> group of the core team WILL be there. Myself, Lawrence Manning, Nigel
> Fenton, I'm hoping Nick W if he's free, and a lot of the core team, Becca
> will be there virtually I hope at least in spirit.
>
> Venue
> -----
>
> To be announced obviously
>
> Culminating in a photosession for the Linux press (LWN.net, Linux Today,
> Linux User [would be nice Daniel J if you're watching]).
>
> SmoothWall is NOT the only topic on the agenda. General Linux stuff too
> and we hope to adjourn to a bar for "liquid lilo" after the meeting and to
> generally get to know new faces.
>
> Please do make the effort to come if you are able, the more people able to
> attend the better for SmoothWall.
>
> Richard
>
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>
> Richard Morrell, Founder and Project Manager - SmoothWall GPL
>
> SmoothWall - Securing Your Digital World
>
> - email: richard at smoothwall.org /.co.uk / .ltd.uk / .info
> - alternate email: richard at linux.com / richard at webdynamics.uk.com
>
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> but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup
>
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