On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:28, John Dean wrote:

On Thursday 11 December 2003 18:01, ian wrote:

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On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:55, John Dean wrote:

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For me London is totally out of the question. It is not a matter of distance or money it is a matter of principle, being a Northerner. As far as organic muck is concerned you can shove that stuff where a monkey shoves his nuts

I'm a Geordie by birth and Midlander by adoption. Why London? Because it has the best rail connections, the biggest population to recruit from and most importantly the Government is in London and if you want to get influential people from the Government to attend.... The fundamental question is Do we want FLOSS to succeed? If so we need to do the things most likely to make it happen and not get side-tracked by individual politics as you indicate with your monkey comment ;-)

Sorry Hinny, there is no way I will travel to London no matter what the reason. Like I said this is a matter of principle and it a principle that I will not change

No problem, I know a lot of people who say similar things about computer operating systems :-) -- ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>