🚀 go-pugleaf

andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au (Andrew McRae) writes:

>What should be done then? I see a great hope in the state
>conferences - these seem to be in the old spirit of AUUG conferences,
>no sales pitches, strong techo stuff etc.

As a co-organizer of the Victorian summer conference it was ***very***
disappointing to have not a single paper entered from a tertiary
institution. (well we did have a student doing work with CITRI present :-)
It was not for lack of trying and coercion ...... it was the
user base that drove the conference, not any academic efforts. It bears
some thinking about ...

>If this occurs, AUUG may well become an
>hollow shell, echoing with the empty mantras of the vendors as they
>chant their Open Systems gospel, deserted by the people who formed
>the original foundations.

Again, if the so-called people or institutions who supported the original
aims of AUUG can't get their collective acts together to support the
__technical__ outlet that AUUG offers, then I'll be stuffed if I'll hold
back change (progress??) in who AUUG decides to orient themselves to.

I hope the technical stream at this years winter conference will be a strong
one which echos the efforts that the local "techos" have indulged in and wish
to publically display. The committee aren't dumb ...... they are listening
to these complaints/suggestions and the winter conference should be the
stronger for it.

	ian
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