I've never seen such inapt community btw, which is totally ignorant in
 organizing itself. See the gnome community which started to exist the
 same year. They have more conferences per year, one of them being
 huge(guadec) with sponsors, larger companies involved, and *most* of
 *all* they're a centralised community.    
Oh just got an email from the linuxsampler mailinglist.
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This 
SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation
Hackers Unite!  GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event.
GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway
http://2004/guadec.org
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just to prove my words. Yes they're a rant but not a troll.
Marek
(who's trying to calm down)