[wplug-plan] More Wehrli Fun

[Zach Paine]

This is a forwarded message sent to Larry Weber directly from a LUGOD 
member.  I agree that if his presentation is interesting it may be worth 
having him, but we may also want to be concerned about him insulting 
meeting attendees.  Tricky balance.

	-Zach

Begin forwarded message:

> hi larry,
>
> i can certainly understand your skepticism.  i have good and bad news.
>
> the good news is that rob is for real.  he's either a real kernel hacker
> or a knowledgable person who employs real kernel hackers.  he's
> sponsored somehow by hitachi (i never got the relationship between him
> and hitachi down straight) and he wrote muclinux(sp?) which is a port of
> linux to the embedded linux processor.  he brought with him an
> incredible amount of swag, the talk was interesting and we haven't been
> spammed yet (that i can see).
>
> now for the bad news.  rob is, and let me put it bluntly so there's no
> misunderstanding here, a real fuck-wipe.  he's offensive, insulting and
> a general boor.  i'm not sure i'd ever let him talk to our group again,
> even for the swag he brought (and it was damn good swag too.  every
> member got a copy of an o'reilly book on writing embedded C
> applications).  he insulted just about everyone he came in contact with.
> not by calling them names, but just little things like making a snide
> comment that our secretary (a non-technical linux user) didn't know what
> a bootloader was.  that doesn't sound quite that bad, but the sheer
> number of incidents made his gaffes unbearable to me.  it was a pretty
> constant stream.
>
> that being said, i might be sensitive to that sort of thing, and i'm
> sure some people didn't think it was quite as bad as i'm making it out
> to be (although i'm sure everyone noticed).  i would recommend having
> him come talk if you're prepared for his caustic nature.  he brings alot
> of good stuff with him, and the talk IS interesting to embedded people.
>
> hth!
> pete
>
>
>
> begin L A Weber <lmpweber at nauticom.net>
>> Hello, I am member of the Western Pennsylvania Linux User Group
>> (Pittsburgh).  We have been contacted recently by a Mr. Rob Wehrli.  He
>> has offered to do a presentation to our LUG and gave your group as a
>> reference.  His offer seems a bit too good..  I know he wants to 
>> promote
>> some sort of embedded Linux product he plans to sell but beyond that we
>> don't know much about him.  One concern we have is that he may start
>> spamming our members, or that he expects a sizable donation to cover 
>> his
>> expenses.  Would you please let us know about your experience with him?
>>
>> Larry Weber
>> lmpweber at nauticom.net
>>
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