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On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:32 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> I was going to send this to the trustees, but I realised that they might |
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> be changing around soon, so I'll send it here instead: |
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> Dear future trustees, |
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> As you might be aware, we recently held a users-and-developers meeting |
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> in London: |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-uk-2006/ |
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> This was actually our 3rd annual Gentoo UK event. |
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> The Gentoo Foundation were the biggest source of funds which allowed for |
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> this year's event to take place, for which we are very grateful. |
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> It turns out that the event attracted over twice as many people than we |
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> initially expected (even at short notice), some people even travelled |
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> from other parts of Europe. |
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> As well as some sessions run by Gentoo developers, we had two |
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> professionals who gave very interesting and entertaining talks: |
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> Hanni Ali of www.ainkaboot.co.uk (Gentoo-based clustering company) |
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> Andrew Cowie of www.operationaldynamics.com (enterprise risk management, |
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> involving Gentoo) |
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> All this made for a really successful event, everyone seemed to enjoy it |
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> immensely. |
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> In order to cover costs, we charged a small entrance fee, but many |
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> people who attended were very generous. This meant that we were able to |
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> donate over half of the funding back to the foundation (£88.23). |
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> I just wanted to make sure that you are now fully aware that we have |
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> sufficient capacity to organise relatively large UK events, and I hope |
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> that this and the fact we were able to return a lot of the money will be |
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> considered when we apply for funding for future events. :) |
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> Thanks! |
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> Daniel |
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Is there any news on a 2007 event? This time, really, I promise I'll be |
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in the country to attend! |
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Regards, |
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Lisa Seelye |
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GPG: 09CF5 2D6B8 2B72B 997A7 601BC B46B5 561E4 96FC5 |
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http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site |