Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 02, 2003 04:47 AM
I live in NYC. I watch the council hearings on cable. I especially watch and make notes of when there are hearings for the agencies in charge of technology.
I saw no notice of this hearing.
Is it too much to ask Tony Stanco to send a simple email out, giving a heads up to this meeting? Is this too much to ask? Or a simple post on Newsforge, which anyone can do?
Your post shows that you have some axe to grind. I think that giving a heads up is not too much to ask. Had this been given, I would have been in the audience of the hearing, and I may have asked to testify. And if my council rep was on that panel, I definitely would have asked to testify. Yet I missed any notice of the hearing. My fault. But if a heads up would have been given to any of the NYC open source groups, whose mailing lists I'm on most of, or to Newsforge, or to Slashdot, or to any one of dozens of other tech news web sites, I would have seen it, and I would have participated.
Upset that others are bitching that Tony Stanco held the spotlight? Your priorities are misplaced. The more open source advocates that can show up, testify, pack the audience, talk with their reps after the hearing, schedule in person meetings in their offices afterwards when the topic is fresh in their minds, the better.
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I live in NYC, watch council hearings, no notice
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 02, 2003 04:47 AMI saw no notice of this hearing.
Is it too much to ask Tony Stanco to send a simple email out, giving a heads up to this meeting? Is this too much to ask? Or a simple post on Newsforge, which anyone can do?
Your post shows that you have some axe to grind. I think that giving a heads up is not too much to ask. Had this been given, I would have been in the audience of the hearing, and I may have asked to testify. And if my council rep was on that panel, I definitely would have asked to testify. Yet I missed any notice of the hearing. My fault. But if a heads up would have been given to any of the NYC open source groups, whose mailing lists I'm on most of, or to Newsforge, or to Slashdot, or to any one of dozens of other tech news web sites, I would have seen it, and I would have participated.
Upset that others are bitching that Tony Stanco held the spotlight? Your priorities are misplaced. The more open source advocates that can show up, testify, pack the audience, talk with their reps after the hearing, schedule in person meetings in their offices afterwards when the topic is fresh in their minds, the better.
Or don't you believe this?
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