hi,
I'm Bert from Belgium and not very active here, though a mailing list.
If you would decide to host such an event in Belgium, don't forget to ping me, I think I know the perfect location for a 2 day summit in Ghent, for a smaller group (max 100p/day).
anyway, I'll follow this thread, and I'll see where I can help :-)
cheers, Bert
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Always Learning centos@u61.u22.net wrote:
Hallo everyone.
I'm Paul from England, Europe and a Centos 5.6 user.
I would like to support efforts to promote the excellent Centos product.
I favour publicising Centos more. It really is a brilliant product created and maintained by a tiny few who are mainly unknown to the vast quantity of world users.
One of my recent suggestions is an annual week long Centos event on every continent.
For Europe, perhaps in sunny Belgium. To make it affordable for all it could be camping rather than expensive hotels and held in June, July or August.
We could make it happen in Europe in 2012 when the streets of London are grid-locked (that's American for jammed) with Olympic traffic and parts of London grind to a halt.
A welcome and refreshing break, good weather, stimulating thoughts and learning and discovering new things plus the tasty Belgium chips (USA = fries) and beer.
The suggestion is to get the European summer camping and conference event going, followed by a hotel based winter event and formal conference. November is probably a good month in Europe to exploit the slack times in hotel and conference centre bookings. Eastern Europe is likely to be a lot cheap that western Europe, although bargains can sometimes be found in amazing locations (usually if one promises not to publicise the low rates).
Centos lacks the money M$ had when it started promoting its product like it was washing-power or some every-day domestic product that everyone has or needs (that was in USA's Las Vegas when M$ had pillow cases in bedrooms printed with their product's name).
However, with virtually no cash but enthusiasm, vision, tenacity and a drop or two of inspiration and good co-operation we can make it happen.
Its your show. Can I join ?
-- With best regards,
Paul. England, EU.
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