[wsfii-discuss] Wsfii above and beyond?

Thu Nov 24 13:06:29 UTC 2005

And these guys wonder why people see Linux as alienating?

Jo Walsh wrote:

>hello,
>
>i submitted a Wsfii-themed talk to the O'Reilly emerging tech
>conference and got back a 'you are being held in a queue, please send
>begging letters justifying your emergent importance to Rael at this
>address...'
>
>One thing i'd like to be able to say about Wsfii.London is that it
>came to spawn other Wsfiis in other places. Quite a few were talked
>of. I gather that for both local and remote funding reasons we are
>just not going to manage a Wsfii.Mumbai for January of this year.
>(Though the 'wireless roadshow' will still happen there?)
>
>Any word on other Wsfiis which are in certain-concept or even planning
>state would be welcome ;) Perhaps this is begging the question of why
>one would want to stage a Wsfii. Personally i hope to look back
>proudly on the London one for many years; i especialyl appreciated the
>opportunity to witness and listen to people from very different
>contexts, though dedicated hackers in their own fields, talk to each
>other... 
>
>Er anyway this is intended as the mildest of incitement ;)
>
>
>-jo
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