Rick Moen wrote:
3. Am I the only one who found it odd that a "day" might be seven days long?
You are not . We had a short raging debate on this much earlier on and it
resolved like this : the week had been picked to accomodate LUGS and posted
making it irreversible this year . We committed to having ONE DAY next year (
alot of lessons are expected the first time around ) .
We also scheduled an official LD Day based on when *most* of the LDD
participants were demonstrating . Deepak let us know that the 12th seemed to
be most popular .
( note : there was an internal decision made with my group that put us on the
12th . Even though I was personally a VERY strong advocate for a one day
event our group would not have rescheduled for a different day . This is
somewhat embarrassing to me but I am not the groups LDD coordinator and we
did receive an Excellent location for that day . This in no way diminishes
the strength of my convivtion that a single day allows a stronger message to
the press and shoud be implemented in all future LDD events )
> 5. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/staff.shtml:) "End user [1]
> application list. Bill is working on a application list to handout [2]
> to demo visitors that will list Windows applications along with Linux
> apps that serve the same purpose." Hmm. It may seem like a cavil, but
> isn't one of the biggest problems of Linux evangelism folks' insistence
> on a Windows-centric perspective?
YES . Do not advertise the competition even if we were windows centric .
Still people are trying to convert rather than bring new people into the
computing world the right way .
> 7. (Throughout the Web site:) You have "web" in lower case. However,
> it's short for "World-Wide Web", and is a proper noun.
Is it ? Many words are getting 'proper' status because they are being used to
mean one thing in particular but this is a result of advertising and
marketing people influening very recent english . It is also the reason the
word Windows is a trademark even though I have twenty of them in my house
that are older than M$ by about 40 years .
>
> While I'm at it.... You guys can use some copy-editing in a whole lot
> of small areas:
>
> 8. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/staff.shtml:) "He is also the
> maintainer of the french web site." "French" is a proper noun. Ditto
> for "spanish" and "german", below.)
>
> 9. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/home.shtml:) "...a concurrent
> worldwide demonstration of the Linux Operation System...." "Operating
> system", here, is not a proper noun. Usage also appears on
> http://www.linuxdemo.org/about.shtml.
>
> 10. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/about.shtml:) "work(and play!)"
> You need a space in there.
>
> 11. (Same page:) "wonderfull". Nope: One "l".
>
> 12. (Same page:) "RedHat" Nope. Red Hat. (Also on
> http://www.linuxdemo.org/faq.shtml and http://www.linuxdemo.org/press/.)
>
> 13. (Same page:) "Linux Demo Day will take place between September
> 12th-19th." Not 12-18, as stated elsewhere?
>
> 14. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/faq.shtml:) "There have been nation
> wide installfests...." "Nation wide" is a compound adjective.
> Hyphenate.
>
> 15. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/legal.shtml:) "ammount". Nope:
> Amount. Also "employement" should be "employment".
>
> 16. (Same page:) In "OAO Service, Inc", "Inc" is an abbreviation
> and needs a period. Also "afore mentioned" should be "aforementioned".
>
> 17. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/mail.shtml:) "It is meant for those
> that are not interested in the ongoing dicussions...." Use "who"
> instead of "that" when speaking of _people_.
>
> [1] "End user" functions as a compound adjective, here, modifying
> "application", and therefore should be hyphenated.
>
> [2] Should be "hand out". "Handout" is OK as a noun, but the verb
> is two words. This usage also appears in the first paragraph of
> http://www.linuxdemo.org/home.shtml.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Rick Moen Potestatem capite!
> rick (at) linuxmafia.com
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