--E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:24:28AM -0700, Charles Samuels wrote: > fredag 31 mai 2002, 05:31 am, skrev Thomas Zander: > > I fear that the KDE group will be hugely under presented as long as this > > is done in the US. > > Most KDE people are from Europe, plus that I will not travel to the USA > > in the first place. There are probably others that feel likewise. >=20 > After several such events in Europe, I feel that the American KDE develop= ers=20 > have been under-represented. =20 Luckely KDE as a community is a mindset that both USA based KDE hackers and= =20 people from other regions in the world share, that mindset and what we have= =20 accomplished in all this time is what I am concerned about. The 'American KDE developers' are each just as important as European ones, = or asian or australian ones, but that is not the point. > --=20 > Charles Samuels > "Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth = of a=20 > true democratic spirit." -- Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi cared more for his believes then for the feeling of being accepted, = be believed in his opinion more then (m)any of us will ever do. Putting his quote in your signature makes me believe that you will see the = points Alan and others are making, the DMCA and many other things happening in pol= itics today (yes, in your country as well) are a threath to what I feel the KDE m= indset brings us. Thanx for reading. --=20 Thomas Zander zander@planescape.c= om We are what we pretend to = be --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8987kCojCW6H2z/QRAsPZAKCWSn6p7fdA1tsnK8J6IAD49Shr+wCfU50v VUqJMufXjSLGg+Ft4Nnt8s8= =KTOy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1--