On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 17:24 -0600, David Hilton wrote: > I strongly disagree with your characterization of the ACM, > specifically its goals and niche. *snip* > Being sponsored != being a corporate puppet
*shrug* I suspected you'd disagree. ;-) Maybe the BYU ACM has changed since I was there, but I doubt it. I know it meets the expectations of many people; it wouldn't be a successful if it didn't. It just didn't meet mine. It might be possible to accept sponsorship without being a puppet, but my experience has been that most sponsored meetings involve a lot of marketing and much less learning. The UUG has had successful corporate sponsored meetings, for example when Byron and Dave brought pizza, talked about embedded development, and tried to recruit interns. But Byron and Dave were members first, corporate shills second. They came wanting to share something cool, not just market to a captive audience. I'd rather have a strong culture of freedom than free pizza. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
