Announcing New Israeli Usergroups [possible satire]

From: Shlomi Fish
Date: 1 April 2013
Subject: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

Hi all,

My series of books about mastering UNIX tools (see: the announcement of the book Mastering cat) has enjoyed tremendous success, and now I decided to take it to the next logical level. As a result, I have decided to start up several special interest groups (SIGs) or user groups for the tools that I covered in the series:

• TelAviv.cm - the Tel Aviv cat(1) mongers.

• Haifa.ec - the Haifa echo chamberists.

• Jerusalem.tb - the Jerusalem true believers.

• Eilat.fh - the Eilat false hoodies.

We will soon announce the upcoming meetings of these user-groups on our calendar.

Best regards,

— Shlomi Fish

This was originally written as a post to the Israeli Linux mailing list and to other mailing lists on 1 April, 2013, and sparked some discussion. It parodies the proliferation of over-specialised user groups in the Tel Aviv area as of its writing.