Heard in the Boardroom

Some quotes from this weekend’s meeting of the Linux Australia Managing Committee:

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Leading into a discussion about a future budget for the organization, several members did a somewhat informal, back of the envelope calculation to get a starting point (as this year’s financials are, naturally, not available yet). After adding up some numbers, this was heard:

Geoffrey: “so we almost certainly lost money this year”

AJ rebuts: “no, I feel we almost certainly made money this year”

Mark, the treasurer interjected: “no, we basically came out even.”

Jon concluded: “so, what we made was $20K, plus or minus $30K. Great!”

Thank god for error bars.

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AJ: So we’re controlling them

Stewart: No, we’re facilitating their enthusiasms!

AJ: Ok, we’re controlling them in the sense of facilitating them.

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Mark: Your husband is a good example.

Pia: No he’s not.

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AJ: I’d rather have invalid data than no data.

Ah, nothing like sentences taken out of context -ed