[NBLUG/talk] SVLUG: Women in FLOSS

[Justin Thiessen]

"FLOSS" just *sounds* better.  It's a theme you can really sink your
teeth into... I mean, you can get into your teeth, er....never mind.

Justin

On 6/9/06, Chris Wagner <chriswagner at amyskitchen.net> wrote:
> Of course, extending the theme of language..  One might ask, why not
> just say Libre Open Source Software (less redundant), but having the
> acronym "LOSS" on a powerpoint presentation an IT manager is presenting
> to executives probably isn't desirable, where as "FLOSS" could be more
> of an amusing talking point to bring a certain amount of levity to these
> otherwise boring meetings.
>
> - Chris W.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf
> Of Cal Herrmann
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:18 AM
> To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to
> questions,etc.
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] SVLUG: Women in FLOSS
>
> My dentist says I don't have to floss all my teeth, just those I want to
> keep.
> Maybe the Libre part makes it more memorable!
> Cal Herrmann
> On Jun 8, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:44:32PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:
> >> While we are at it, what is FLOSS?  I know what OSS is, but Not the
> >> FL part.
> >
> > Free/Libre/Open-Source Software
> > --
> > Eric Eisenhart
> > NBLUG Co-Founder, Scribe and InstallFest Coordinator The North Bay
> > Linux Users Group -- http://nblug.org/ eric at nblug.org, IRC:
> > Freiheit at fn AIM: falschfreiheit
>
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