[Consortium] [Fwd] FSMSI 2004 - First european seminar on "Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over Internet"

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 4 10:24:38 EDT 2004


On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:37:15 +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
> Dear all and dear Jaromil,
> 
> >>>>> "jaromil" == jaromil  <jaromil at dyne.org> writes:
> 
>     > hello,
> 
>     > The First European Seminar on Free Software for Multimedia
>     > Streaming over Internet
> 
>     > AHAHAHAHAHAHA.. ehr, ups, sorry, i'm still laughing since i read
>     > it i mean: european institutions are playing being prehistorical
>     > or what?  being 2004 we have had a whole lot of such seminars
>     > allready, all over.
> 
> Actually  the choice    of wording  for  the announcement   was  quite
> unfortunate (this  was due partly to time  pressure and  partly to the
> fact that I'm not a native english speaker).   I was thinking about it
> right after sending  the  announcement out,  but I  was hoping  nobody
> would notice the ambiguity. :)

<pedant>

actually it does read that way to me, the capilalisation of First links it
to the rest of the name, but maybe 1st would make it clear that it was an
ordinal, not a claim ;)

</pedant>

- Steve



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