How You Can Help the Tel Aviv Open Source Club

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 16 February 2009 13:44:34 Nadav Vinik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Yesterday we held a meeting where Zvi Devir gave his "Windows Refund
> > HOWTO",
> > which was an interesting presentation about a widely-discussed topic,
> > that received a lot of publicity. I publicised this meeting on several
> > mailing lists, as well as on whatsup, linmagazine, and other forums. We
> > also have some
> > feeds, and a Google calendar for the events (also in iCal format) if
> > people wish to subscribe to them exclusively.
> >
> > However, despite all that, only 5-6 people (including the presenter and
> > me) came to hear the talk. The question is why?
> >
> > Zvi already advised me that next times I should approach TAU-specific
> > channels
> > and publicise it there. I'll talk with Eddie Aronovich, who is our
> > contact in
> > the university about it. However, it still doesn't explain why many
> > previous
> > Telux attendees, who are not associated with the university did not come.
> >
> > So:
> >
> > 1. What is the reason you did not come?
>
> The same reasons for the rest of the lectures which I didn't come:
>     It's start to early in 6:30 and need to go out from work even earlier..

We've had similar discussions before. The problems with starting it later is:

1. The building gets closed at 20:30-21:00 . So we won't have a lot of time.

2. People tend to become tired so late into the night.

3. Some people have to return home early. (like K12 students, etc.)

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Note that getting to the meeting later is probably better than not coming at 
all. And I should note that other people and I have voiced our sentiments 
against the current practices of many weekly hours of work: 
http://xrl.us/begfcc .

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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