On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Elton Woo wrote: > > > > > Is there or will there be a Canadian Red Hat Road Tour? > > > If so, where may one find details on it? > > > > you know, before everyone gets their knickers in a knot > > over this RH tour, it might be worth pointing out that > > you can learn darn near everything you need on these > > very red hat mailing lists. unless someone who's actually > > *been* to one of those things can fill us in on what > > we're missing. Agreed, but it was nice to have a face to face meeting with the developers and QA guys. FWIW I asked enough questions to get a Black "Red Hat" hat!! :-) The road tour guys had REd Red Hat hats :-( They did not give out T-Shirts in Phila. > I went to one last night (los angeles) and I think that Robert is correct, > in fact if you hang out on these lists you may be a little disappointed > with the tour if you're expecting to get amazingly detailed info. One thing they did in Phila was to break into 2 groups. Newbee and more advanced. Since they did not have 2 rooms the "more advanced" group got to stand outside in the cold, but it was still interesting. > I learnt three main things: > 1. The GNOME-Start menu duplicate entries for mouse/keyboard configuration > in SystemSettings and Preferences have confused lots of people and this > layout will be changed. > > 2. Quite a few people are unhappy with the fact that the > minimal-recommended memory usage for a graphical workstation is 192Mb. > Someone (Dan Kegel?) pointed out that the rhn "throbber" in the panel uses > 12Mb! > > 3. Don't go expecting to get a t-shirt (my main reason for attending!). > Of an audience of approximately 45 there were three t-shirts. The guy > handing them out explained that their normal procedure is to give them to > the people that ask the most questions. Lots of disappointed people > wandered off not quite consoled with the key-chain and demo-copy of Psyche > (3 cdroms, contains no devel-libs). Hummm, My sample cd collection only had 2 cd's in it. Not of much use to me actually. Just what I need a crippeled version of RHL 8.0. > All in all, it was interesting, but technically less so than this list, > and the efficiency of discussion was lower. > > (Also I was really disappointed not to get a t-shirt!) It was after all a marketing tour. Sponsered by our friends at IBM. I still think it was worth it though, but I got a hat!! :-)) -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
