[Aslug] Fwd: (ASLUG) Ideas that were tossed around 11th May meeting

Fri Jun 3 14:05:22 EST 2011

 Wed 8th is good with me.

Edan, I'm happy to help with CPanel.

Mike H

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fengh2005" 
To:"aslug at lists.linux.org.au" 
Cc:
Sent:Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:40:35 +0930
Subject:[Aslug] Fwd: (ASLUG) Ideas that were tossed around 11th May
meeting

 > Hi all
 > It is coming towards the second Wednesday of the month again.
 > How about a get-together next Wednesday(8th of June) ?
 > 
 > Regards
 > Feng
 > 
 > From: edan.baxter at gmail.com [1] [mailto:edan.baxter at gmail.com [2]]
On Behalf Of Edan Baxter
 > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 12:50 PM
 > To: aslug at lists.linux.org.au [3]
 > Cc: Feng Huang; warvault at gmail.com [4]
 > Subject: (ASLUG) Ideas that were tossed around 11th May meeting
 > 
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > Sorry for delayed continuation of this thread.. My original post
got caught up in moderation..
 > 
 > I think we were talking about ways to promote the virtues of Linux
in the community and get a few more Asluggers to be part of the
discussions etc ..
 > 
 > edan
 > 
 > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 > From: Edan Baxter >
 > Date: 12 May 2011 13:08
 > Subject: Re: [Aslug] (ASLUG) Ideas that were tossed around 11th May
meeting
 > To: "aslug at lists.linux.org.au [5]" >
 > 
 > 
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > Was good to catch up with everyone last night.
 > 
 > Not being a command line guru, personally I enjoy talking about the
ideas of "open source culture" and the wider implications of different
licencing systems in general... (if I can improve my practical linux
skills - bonus)
 > 
 > Anyway, thanks for the positive feedback and comments around the
"Common Territory" project I am working on. I'll continue to keep the
group updated and maybe there will be potential for collaboration down
the track :)
 > 
 > Bill and Feng - I reckon it would be great to "see whos out there"
but coming from a website dev background, I tend to subscribe to the
"build it and those interested will come" principle. For example, if
ASLUG was to have a little stall at the Markets, great, but I think it
would be good to demonstrate "technology in action" as part of it.
 > 
 > Thus, if others on this list/in the general community see that
things are active and ASLUG is helping to facilitate interesting
conversations/ providing useful N00B advice/ working on interesting
projects, I am sure things will grow out of that.
 > 
 > Feng - Hmm in terms of communication methods.. well email here is
good, but forums would be helpful to document and discuss in more
detail..
 > 
 > I guess it depends on the outcome req'd.. For awareness raising -
dare I ask the question - is facebook a possibility? (such as
MelbourneLUG https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=146247927013 [6]).
 > 
 > :)
 > 
 > Edan
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > On 12 May 2011 11:01, Feng Huang > wrote:
 > Hi all
 > 
 > Thank you for the email, Ben.
 > That is great stuff.
 > 
 > Here are some of the questions we could have a think about?
 > 
 > First we need to figure out what is consist of ASLUGger community.
 > Let's just say
 > ASLUGger community=
 > group of people + special interests + regular communication(in
person or online)
 > 
 > The "what" part of the questions are raised in Ben's email.
 > 
 > What kind of people do we want to attract?
 > What special interests should be we define?
 > What communication methods do we want to use(email, forum, face to
face and etc)?
 > 
 > And there is the "HOW" part of the questions.
 > 
 > How can we attract the kind of people we want?
 > How can we develop the "special interests" we defined?
 > How should we organize the communication methods(setting up forum,
finding venues)?
 > 
 > Supporting "Tech n00bz" is essential.(Aren't we all a n00bz in some
area anyway)?
 > Getting support as a n00bz in many areas is exactly one of my
motives.
 > 
 > Money is an issue and a sensitive one, too
 > We don't want anyone having to spend any money they don't want to
 > Can we get around the issue for the time being( as we don't have
any)?
 > 
 > Things we have:
 > Venue, computers, projectors, open source platforms and the spirit
 > to do things at low or no cost( at least we have achieved not
having to pay MS).
 > 
 > Anyway,
 > I enjoyed last night.
 > Good to catch up.
 > Feng
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: aslug-bounces at lists.linux.org.au [7]
[mailto:aslug-bounces at lists.linux.org.au [8]] On Behalf Of WARvault
 > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:19 AM
 > To: aslug at lists.linux.org.au [9]
 > Subject: [Aslug] (ASLUG) Ideas that were tossed around 11th May
meeting
 > 
 > Hi everyone,
 > I decided to belt out an email tonight, hopefully keep some of the
 > momentum from the LUG meeting going.
 > 
 > We DO want more ASLUGgers but who do we want them to be? Do we want
 > every Alice Springs Linux user? Every computer power-user (whatever
 > that means)? What about people with Android phones and Linksys
routers
 > but use Vista to flash 3rd-party roms to them? Frankly I get what I
 > want from the ASLUG meetings, I get my nerd on! Still I put forward
 > the Todd Market stall idea because I can't imagine people turning
up
 > to anything really, regarding Linux (who doesn't already). So
 > passers-by seeing Firefox, and VLC running on hardware can think to
 > themselves "why in hell do I pay for the underlying OS when all the
 > stuff I run is FOSS?". From there it seems like trivial step to
 > replace "Windows+Firefox+Thunderbird+MediaPlayer+VLC" with "Mint 9
 > LTS+Firefox+Thunderbird+Totem+VLC". It would also give us (ME!!!)
an
 > ASLUG activity to participate in twice a month (three times a month
if
 > you count the LUG as well...)
 > 
 > Now there might be clouds to this idea that I can't see past the
 > silver lining. Supporting "teh n00bz" is one right off the bat, but
 > thats kind of what I think a LUG is for amirite?
 > 
 > And money, I don't have any and I don't want any of yours! Do we
get
 > any from linux.au? [10] Or any other FOSS organisation? Do we have
to (try
 > and) sell Windows editions of LibreOffice, GIMP, OpenArena, etc,
etc,
 > etc, to cover the costs of our stall? Etc, etc, etc...
 > 
 > Anyway discuss!
 > 
 > Bill
 > 
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