LUGRadio Live This Summer 87
[vmlinuz] writes "Also picked up on The Register, The Inquirer and Linux Today - with the LUGRadio show getting more and more listeners and attracting guests such as Miguel de Icaza, Mark Shuttleworth, Alan Cox, Seth Nickell and more, the growing fanbase will be able to congregate at LUGRadio Live this summer. The day long event includes speakers such as Ian Bell (co-creator of Elite), Simon Willison, Bill Thompson, Christan Schaller and more. In addition to the speakers, an all day bar, multi-player gaming, mini expo and paintball are in the cards. LUGradio Live takes place on Sat 25th June 2005 in Wolverhampton, UK."
Podcasts and the like.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Is it just me? (Score:2, Insightful)
It seems to me that more often than news, slashdot's thing is adverts for nerds.
Not saying it's a bad thing, there's a big grey area between news and adverts in this sort of thing, and hey, I'm here every day reading the stuff.
I'm saying this mainly because I'd never heard of LUG radio before. Now I'm interested.
Damn it "News for Nerds, Ads that bloody well work".
PS Sorry if this comes off as a bit trollish. Its just there's a fine line between news and well targetted advertising.
Re:Is it just me? (Score:3, Insightful)
On the contrary, there is a very large and very blurred line between news and advertising.
It is well-known what the readership of Slashdot is primarily. Since this event seems to be something that some readers may wish to attend, it is very much news, but it also happens to be advertising. Your mistake is in making the two mutually exclusive.
You might make the argument that this is unacceptably more ad than news, but this is a much more subjective and difficult thing to show.
Re:Let them improve (Score:5, Insightful)
Come as you are (Score:5, Insightful)
It's pretty impressive that this thing has come together at all considering it has no corporate sponsorship and is being done for the fun of the event.
Imagine that no corporate interest just a bunch of hackers having fun. It's pre-takeover blues
nice change of pace (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:why isn't it downloadable (Score:1, Insightful)