From: Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10/9/00 9:56:43 AM
>On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Dave Cross wrote:
>>
>> A report on YAPC::Europe has just appeared at
>>
>> <http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/yapc-europe.html>
>>
>> Personally, I was very impressed with the bit that said:
>>
>> "Dave Cross, London.pm's chieftain, was also involved as
>> an organizer and a sponsor. He's the type of man who
>> gives consultants a bad reputation. His obvious
>> sincerity, honesty and competence will unduly raise
>> client expectations, ruining customers for those
>> consultants who follow him."
>>
>> But I suspect that he was joking!
>
> I like to think that I was improving reality --
> tastefully, the way they colourize old B&W films ;-)
So now I'm a B&W film :)
>> Dave...
>>
>> p.s. I intend to write to the author and point out that I
>> wasn't an organiser, but Jon Peterson _was_.
>
> He did & I've asked that the bit identifying Dave as an
> organiser be snipped (but I don't know if they do
> post-publication changes). The non-mention of Jon (and
> anyone else who I should have mentioned) was an oversight
> for which I sincerely apologise; though in mitigation I'd
> say that the piece was more of an impressionistic tale
> than a strictly factual recounting.
Just wanted to point out that I wasn't criticising Mark's article
at all. I think that it's a fine article and I realise that in
identifying me as an organiser he was simply repeating a common
misconception.
I am, however, adamant that I won't take credit for someone else's
hard work. If there's any kudos flying around for organising
the conference, then none of it belongs to me.
Cheers,
Dave...
--
<http://www.dave.org.uk>
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one",
he said. But still they come.
