[TriLUG] Who's in charge of this group? - Inter group meetingBerkeleyTIP-Global August 2 Saturday

Brian Henning Brian.Henning at datadirect.com
Fri Aug 1 13:58:59 EDT 2008


It's 2,834 miles from here, to be inexact:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Raleigh,+NC&daddr=Berkeley,+CA&hl=
en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.462693,114.785156&ie=U
TF8&t=h&z=5

Who wants to carpool?! :-D

~B

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Lambdin
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:42 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Who's in charge of this group? - Inter group
meetingBerkeleyTIP-Global August 2 Saturday

Hi -

I'm not sure we have any concept of "who is in charge."   Berkeley
California is like over a hundred miles from here.

--Scott


On 8/1/08, john_re <john_re at fastmail.us> wrote:
>
> Hello from Berkeley, TriLUGers :)
>
> Please tell me - who is in charge in this group?
>
> I ask because I'm wondering: who are the person(s) who might be the
ones
> to help arrange & coordinate an inter group meeting?
>
> I wonder that, because I'm putting together a great new event, a
global
> GNU(Linux)/BSD type software & free culture meeting.
>
> It is a meeting for people interested in learning about, using &
> creating GNU & BSD type software & culture.
>
> I call the local Berkeley meeting the BerkeleyTIP -
> (Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty)
>
> And I call the global simultaneous set of local meetings the
> Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting.
>
> I'm wondering
> 1) If anyone at your group might be interested in joining together in
> this event with others around the world, and if so, then
> 2) who might be the person(s) to head up handling arrangements, &
> coordination, etc, for the joint meeting?
>
> If this sounds to you like it might be interesting, here is some info
> for you to read:
>
> =====  CONTENTS:
> 1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING
> 2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR
> 3) WHAT TO DO NEXT
> 4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2, SATURDAY
>   FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING?
> 5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING
> 6) SUMMARY
>
> =====================================================================
> =====  1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING  =====
>
> The basic idea is a monthly meeting, a full day at the beginning of
each
> month, the first Saturday of each month, simultaneous throughout
Earth,
> with these four components:
>
> There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of activities:
> 1) TALKS        Talks by various speakers (stream/DL video globally)
> 2) INSTALLFEST  Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux
software.
> 3) POTLUCK      Bring food to share or $5: eat, chat (optional)
> 4) PROGRAMMING PARTY     Write SW on your. or a group. project
>
> We will have IRC & VOIP communications between the groups, enabling
> information sharing, & work on development projects, etc.  It's like a
> GNU-Linux user group meeting, on a global scale. Or, it's like a whole
> earth GNU-Linux user group meeting.
>
> =====================================================================
> =====  2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR  =====
>
> I'm doing this in my "spare" part time, as a volunteer effort for the
> GNU(Linux)/BSD community.  By education I'm an electrical engineer
(with
> a bit of computer science).  I've been a GNU(Linux) user for about 10
> years, and a member of San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley LUGs
for
> that long.
>
> When I decided to work on doing this, about 2 months ago, I decided to
> just work slowly, steadily, & build it up a step at a time.
>
> So far, we've had two successful local meetings here in Berkeley. A
> first start up meeting, just to get together & talk & plan.  Next
month
> we worked on getting WiFi going at the meeting so it would be easy to
> share an internet connection for everyone. We also got an IRC channel
up
> which the meeting attendees logged into.
>
> Now, this month, I've gotten a Google Groups mailing list & web page
for
> both the local, & global groups.  And, I'm now working on sending out
> the announcement about this meeting, & finding out which people at
other
> groups are interested in this.  And I'll try to work to help groups
like
> yours, that have members who are interested in this, get started in
> getting connected with this meeting.
>
> =====================================================================
> =====  3) WHAT TO DO NEXT  =====
>
> So, if anyone there is interested based on what I've said so far,
there
> are several things that could be done:
>
> 1) Reply to this email, letting me know what part(s) of this you,
> personally, are interested in.
> 2) As part of that, discuss among your local selves if the individuals
> who are interested would like to work to get a local simultaneous
> meeting going.
> 3) Figure out who at your group would lead that effort, or would work
on
> arranging it.
> 4) Read the Berkeley-TIP-Global website, & join it's mailing list:
> http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
>
> The Global group is open to anyone joining - not just the local group
> leaders.  In fact, it is _encouraged_ that everyone interested in the
> meeting join the list - the input on discussions from everyone
> interested will benefit everyone else.
>
> There is more to know about this event than I can put in this email.
> I've put much of that information up on the website, so I encourage
you
> to scan or read it over.  Hopefully that will answer most of the
> questions you have.  If not, please join that group & post questions,
> comments & suggestions for improvement to the mailing list.
>
> =====================================================================
> =====  4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2                =====
> =====     FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING?  =====
>
> If anyone in your group is a bit experienced, or up for some fun, you
> might want to pull a meeting together & join with us tomorrow,
Saturday
> for our first effort to have a multi-site meeting.
>
> This month, I'm just focusing on getting the word out to USA groups.
I
> call this month the Global-USA effort.  In future months I'll expand
it
> to working to get groups connected from the Americas, Europe, then
Asia.
>
> It's easy to join in with us -
> 1) Just find someplace with at least internet capability for IRC
(better
> if it could do VOIP, but that's not necessary for the first meeting) -
> it could be merely someone's home or apartment, an internet cafe, or a
> school or office room.
> 2) Post an announcement to your local list that everyone is invited.
> 3) Come to your local meeting & get on IRC with us.
> 4) Download some videos & watch them simultaneously with all the
> participating groups.
> 5) Talk about the videos, or whatever, on IRC, or VOIP.
>
> That's all there is to it.
>
> =====================================================================
> =====  5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING  =====
>
> For this first meeting, tomorrow, Saturday, I've scheduled the
following
> videos to watch (All times Pacific Daylight Savings Time, adjust for
> local time accordingly.):
>
> TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
>
> 1000 AM--------------------------------------------------------------
> Network1:  Asterisk VOIP - Sameer Verma
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2148055040572903738
>
> http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20070628
> Social:     ?
> 1130 AM--------------------------------------------------------------
> Network2:  Debian - Setup A WiFi Repeater
>                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKe_jXszFc
> Prog Lang:  Painless Python Part 1 - Alex Martelli
>                http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDgD9whDfEY
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2008-June/003629.html
> Database:   A Googly MySQL Cluster
>                http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ930zMk96U
> 100 PM--------------------------------------------------------------
> GUIs:       ?
> Distros:    git - Linus Torvalds
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737
> 230 PM--------------------------------------------------------------
> Business:   Web 2.0 startups - David Weekly
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2765503550413131030
>
> http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20080626
> Education:  Python on the OLPC XO Laptop
>                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPabiIHgmBU
>
> =====================================================================
> =====  6) SUMMARY  =====
>
> Well, that is the basic information.
>
> Does this sound interesting to you?  Please reply to this email & let
me
> know.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you. :)
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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