While not exactly relevant to this direct topic, Ignite has a decent video about how Wikipedia is so successful with millions of people contributing because they are passionate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPQxSb4ndC4&feature=player_embedded Most of Ignite's presentations are unbelievably awesome. Occasionally not produced well, but the message is generally excellent. Michael Potts (904) 638-2914 On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thursday 05 May 2011 13:43:41 Martin, Patrick wrote: > > > > > Personally, I prefer the hobbyist/hacker culture. I love the folks > > involve= d. Guys like Art Wildman, the long absent Scott Carter and > Kevin > > Castle. > > The JaxLUG article in the July, 2001 Troubleshooting Professional Magazine > has pictures of Art and Kevin at Jacksonville ITEC in 2001. > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200107/200107.htm#_JaxLUG > > > = I'm glad to see guys like Gene and Rob still active. I must > > admit, I miss t= he deep insight and passion of the much controversial > > Brian Smith (aka the = BS). > > Unfortunately I had no photos of Bryan Smith at Jacksonville ITEC, but the > next year's article about Orlando CTS has him right in the center of a > group > photo of the LEAPsters running the booth and teaching the courses: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200206/200206.htm#_OrlandoCTS > > What I don't have, unfortunately, are pictures of Daniel Stringfield, > having > known him only in the brief period he lived in Orlando and became a LEAP > officer. It's kinda spooky that my strongest memory of Daniel was September > 11, 2001, when because of a corporate deadline, I had to drive to Daniel's > apartment and get him to sign some LEAP corporate paperwork. There wasn't a > plane in the sky, nobody knew for sure if we'd be in a shooting war the > next > day, and there were Daniel and I doing Linux group paperwork. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
