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 at 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-promo mailing list > CentOS-promo at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo > -- Bert Desmet 0477/305361 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-promo/attachments/20110828/d179e961/attachment-0006.html>