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

Fri Aug 1 14:02:39 EDT 2008

Although I've learned not to trust google's driving directions since they 
told me to take a "slight left" on a turn that was a hard to port... when 
it should have told me to make a slight right turn.

For the truly adventerous, tell it to avoid highways....

William Sutton

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Brian Henning wrote:

> 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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