Re: [OSCOM] Announcement: Magnolia introduces official training -starts on May 9th
Michael Wechner <[email protected]>
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Tina Greene wrote: >> >> good question ... To be honest your announcement seemed to me also >> like spam, >> but your are right about the description. Maybe it's because the >> assumption >> is that the events which are "exepected" on this mailing list should >> be non-profit, >> which also allows an admittance fee of course, whereas your event >> doesn't sound >> like a non-profit event. On the other hand an Apache conference isn't >> non-profit >> for the organizer either, whereas for the ASF it is. >> > > quick clarification, & please forgive me as it is late & I may be > "splitting hairs here" or misunderstanding exactly what you are saying, no problem > - but as the ApacheCon US Conference Organizer/Producer and the person > who is solely responsible for funding the past three (ACUS > 2002/2003/2004) US ApacheCons' the conference is hopefully NOT > non-profit for the ASF, the ASF is a non-profit organization, so even if the ASF is earning money with the conference, then it still will be non-profit, right? Whereas I guess Security Travel is not non-profit, right? > Again, this was a great situation for everyone the way it is set up, > no potential financial liability for the ASF, with them retaining > complete content control, while being a potential healthy source of > donation as well as the event itself, > - which is the most important thing of all... agreed and didn't mean any harm re Security Travel. I just wanted to express that the world isn't black and white and it's not so easy to differentiate where spam starts and where it stops. So please don't feel offended re by statements above. Nevertheless I am still not certain if Boris' email should be considered spam or not. So, any other opinions are very welcome. Thanks Michi -- Michael Wechner Wyona Inc. - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://lenya.apache.org [email protected] [email protected]