Well, I didn't care too much about the hat (I already have 2 and lost a 3rd.) I'm a bit freaked not to have a t-shirt, but okay, I'll live without one. The 2-CD crippleware set of Red Hat made me yawn, since I have all 5 CD's tucked in my NFS directory. The keychain is nice, but I treasure the one my daughter gave me a few years ago. What really made me sad was that I didn't get a license-free, fully functional version of Red Hat Application Server and another license-free, fully functional version of Oracle 9i in exchange for my 3+ hours of driving (1 hour to the Road Tour event in Chantilly and 2 hours returning. The extra hour was courtesy of a massive traffic jam on Route 66 East.) And I'd certainly like to know more about the 2 people who sat to my left. I suspect they were Red Hat employees in disguise...how else can you get a shirt that says "Operation Cheetah Flip"... Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:59, Tom Diehl wrote: > 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 > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
