[H-GEN] Room Bookings Update

[Arjen Lentz]

Hi Paul

On 14/01/2009, at 12:21 PM, Paul Gearon wrote:
>>> As far as I can remember we have always been Windows
>>> hostile.  Seems reasonable to me, as we are essentially an
>>> open source club.
>>
>> It does not seem reasonable to me at all.
>> a) there are a lots of OSS apps and tools for the Windows platform.
>> Think Firefox and OpenOffice, to keep it very very simple.
>> b) anyone even remotely interested in running an OSS OS will 99.99%
>> certainly be running Windows now.
>
> [...]
> Initially, I don't believe that HUMBUG was about open source software,
> though it seems to have evolved that way now, and I can see that you
> (Arjen) believe that it is about OSS. So has the club formally moved
> to include OSS (I think it might have, but I'm not so diligent at
> reading minutes of meetings)?


I was replying to Russell Stuart, who was referring to humbug as  
"essentially an open source club" (see above).

I honestly don't know what HUMBUG stands for, individuals each have  
their own idea about that it seems but there's no overall vision it  
seems.
That's very lovely in terms of keeping all current people kinda on- 
board, but it does nothing for actually moving forward.

When I walk into a HUMBUG meeting, I see some scary people, and a few  
small groups of people that appear to be having mostly a social  
gathering.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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