Comments on: A big difference http://cianblog.com/2007/02/20/a-big-difference/ Lucian Savluc - Blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:43:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lucian Savluc http://cianblog.com/2007/02/20/a-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-784 Lucian Savluc Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:43:13 +0000 http://cianblog.com/2007/02/20/a-big-difference/#comment-784 Hi Andrei, I'm not trying to deny - the Romanians working for Microsoft there are doing a great job from a professional point of view. 6-7 years ago, I attended myself a few MS conferences in Bucharest and I was positively impressed. Also, I agree, MS has money so they can afford to do that kind of things and preparations. What I'm trying to say is that all of us involved in events like this, should learn and improve our contribution and prepare FLOSS events and initiatives like professionals. And this is what we are going to do at eLiberatica. The power of FLOSS community is not relaying in financial resources - although is a different situation in other countries than in Romania - but in the level of participation and in the seriousness and dedication of its members. The power of one multiplied by ten of thousand. Moreover, this power sometime is much stronger than the power of a corporation, even if we talk about Microsoft. Hi Andrei, I’m not trying to deny – the Romanians working for Microsoft there are doing a great job from a professional point of view. 6-7 years ago, I attended myself a few MS conferences in Bucharest and I was positively impressed. Also, I agree, MS has money so they can afford to do that kind of things and preparations.
What I’m trying to say is that all of us involved in events like this, should learn and improve our contribution and prepare FLOSS events and initiatives like professionals. And this is what we are going to do at eLiberatica.

The power of FLOSS community is not relaying in financial resources – although is a different situation in other countries than in Romania – but in the level of participation and in the seriousness and dedication of its members. The power of one multiplied by ten of thousand. Moreover, this power sometime is much stronger than the power of a corporation, even if we talk about Microsoft.

]]> By: Andrei http://cianblog.com/2007/02/20/a-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Andrei Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:12:28 +0000 http://cianblog.com/2007/02/20/a-big-difference/#comment-783 Lucian, I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of ROLUG so there might be some issues that I currently don't understand, but Microsoft Romania helped RONUA (especially RONUA Bucharest) many times. For example, Aurelian had a "Ready to Rock" kit with Visual Studio 2005 Professional, MSDN Library and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition with 1 CAL, plus a bunch of Microsoft Press and O'Reilly books to give away. Aurelian didn't pay a single dollar out of his pocket for those, but he spent a great deal of time talking to the folks at Microsoft Romania and explaining why a community behind their .NET Platform is such a big deal. I don't know if there are any companies backing up ROLUG, although many reap the benefits of a Romanian Linux Community. Few companies give back to the community and that's a sad fact. I'm sure that the speakers at the OS & Linux for Enterprise conference did their best, but most of them lacked experience. A friend of mine from Microsoft told me that each Microsoft employee that might go out and speak at an event has to go through a couple of training courses on this subject. As you said, nobody can afford a screw-up. Lucian, I’m not very familiar with the inner workings of ROLUG so there might be some issues that I currently don’t understand, but Microsoft Romania helped RONUA (especially RONUA Bucharest) many times. For example, Aurelian had a “Ready to Rock” kit with Visual Studio 2005 Professional, MSDN Library and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition with 1 CAL, plus a bunch of Microsoft Press and O’Reilly books to give away. Aurelian didn’t pay a single dollar out of his pocket for those, but he spent a great deal of time talking to the folks at Microsoft Romania and explaining why a community behind their .NET Platform is such a big deal.

I don’t know if there are any companies backing up ROLUG, although many reap the benefits of a Romanian Linux Community. Few companies give back to the community and that’s a sad fact.

I’m sure that the speakers at the OS & Linux for Enterprise conference did their best, but most of them lacked experience. A friend of mine from Microsoft told me that each Microsoft employee that might go out and speak at an event has to go through a couple of training courses on this subject. As you said, nobody can afford a screw-up.

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