Hi to/from CQLUG,<br><br>I managed to miss the meeting last month ... this month I set so many reminders, I fully expected complete strangers to walk up to me in the street and remind me :-) ... and this is also a reminder to my colleagues the meeting is on!<br>
<br>My thoughts on what happened last month<br>(my comments marked "donak}" and I edited freely)<br><br>1. OpenDisc<br><br>PaulWay: Software Freedom Day.<br>PaulWay: Is there any point in me organising another CD giveaway?<br>
bob2: PaulWay: aren't there lots of leftovers?<br><br>donak} umm, we had a lot left over here in Rockhampton, I ended up sending a couple of hundred or so to Brisbane (UQ O-day?)<br>donak} we're just not set up for 500 discs, 100 to 200 would be enough to handle<br>
<br>from later in the meet:<br>PaulWay: But I shall mention it on the LA list to see if there's more interest, perhaps in a smaller run this year, and we'll go from there.<br>donak} my point exactly :-) ... I also tried proposing to my colleagues (a couple of months ago) the building of a bootable LiveCD to give away<br>
donak} -minus install scripts, purely as a demo disc, to avoid potential liability (perceived or real) for "you lost my files"<br>donak} -if they express interest in installing, drag them along to an installfest<br>
<br>2. Conferences, Meetings etc.<br><br>PaulWay: OSDC, KCA, other conferences - what's coming up?<br>jhesketh: Kernel conference Australia?<br>hypatia: Stephen Thorne (Jerub) tweeted today that the OSDC CFP is about to come out.<br>
hypatia: Michael Davies and I are about to get to work on lca 2010's CFP, but that would come out late May at the earliest.<br>hypatia: There's an NZ PyCon later this year, I think. Yep, early November: <a href="http://nz.pycon.org/">http://nz.pycon.org/</a><br>
jhesketh: Zookeepr (on a conference note) has been making large strides thanks to the recent hackfest in Melbourne<br><br>hypatia: Is there a good AU/NZ calendar of FOSS events?<br><br>PaulWay: My reason for mentioning these is that I think it's a good idea to mention them at LUGs and start some interest in the people who don't usually go to these conferences.<br>
<br>hypatia: Really LA would be best placed to host one.<br>hypatia: Oh, SAGE-AU is coming up. It's not all Free, but there's quite a bit of overlap: <a href="http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Home">http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Home</a><br>
yama: OpenAustralia hackfest on 6 June, co-hosted by SLUG and Google at Google in Pyrmont, Sydney<br>hypatia: Special interest: <a href="http://2009.foss4g.org/">http://2009.foss4g.org/</a><br>PaulWay: So we should check with Linux-aus if there's a calendar for FOSS events that people can post to. There's something out of date at <a href="http://www.linux.org.au/taxonomy/term/5">http://www.linux.org.au/taxonomy/term/5</a> but it needs lots more input methods. <br>
<br>donak} Two of our members attended 2009 LCA and brought back glowing reports of "fun had by all" ... but we're a long way north of where most of the action takes place.<br>donak} That said, a couple of others are members of SAGE here, I believe<br>
<br>3. Face to Face and other communications channels<br><br>PaulWay: Is there any 'official' LA word on the idea of a face-to-face LUG meetup?<br>PaulWay: Any 'unofficial' word?<br>PaulWay: Is anyone even interested in meeting up face-to-face with other LUG coordinators?<br>
hypatia: I am not so much, but it might have been useful back in the SLUG days.<br>PaulWay: How do you mean?<br>jhesketh: unofficial: LA's meetings have been discussing where LUGs are going... Conclusions, results etc all unknown. My question for a F2F would be where is the value?<br>
hypatia: Well, mostly discussing governance models, maybe organising speaker swaps, regional LUGs getting visits from capital city LUGs, and so on.<br><br>hypatia: I suspect individual visits would probably make more sense as a starting point. From what I see of SLUG at least, there doesn't seem to be a lot of "so-and-so from Perth is giving a talk" and maybe there should be more of that.<br>
PaulWay: hypatia: my problem here is that by the time anyone moves on anything in LA it's way past the actual meeting time. <br>hypatia: Perhaps we as lugcomms people should be keeping an ear out for travelling folk, and aggressively putting them in touch with their destination LUG.<br>
<br>jhesketh: Perhaps as a lead in to any F2F meeting would be a state of the lugs type discussion on the mailing list... Which LUGs are active, how often are they meeting, what sort of numbers do they get, what areas are people interested in... This would lead into the governance models, speaker swaps etc based off how things are currently going...<br>
<br>hypatia: Seems like a chicken and egg problem. If we gave them a reason to mention it, they might mention it.<br>hypatia: Like "SLUG is short a speaker in June, anyone think they'll be up Sydney way?"<br>
hypatia: Which means using lugcomms more aggressively.<br><br>donak} Visitors, Face to Face meetings ... all would be great. I helped start CQLUG because I wanted to find someone / anyone who would talk about Linux<br>donak} but ... as I said about conferences, we're a long way north<br>
donak} the mailing lists / IRC is all good as communications media ... as long as I remember to read 'em and/or attend :-)<br>------------ end of commentary ------------<br><br>Also, I don't know if this is a hoary old subject, but has there been anything further about "Lug In A Box" or such similar things?<br>
I'm grateful for the mailing list hosted by Linux Australia, it's the centre-piece of our communications at the moment ...<br>See you all tomorrow ... err, tonight ...<br>-- <br>Don Knowles<br>PO Box 358 Rockhampton 4700 AUSTRALIA<br>
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Donna Benjamin wrote:<br>
| Reminder - meeting is next week.<br>
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</div>Yay! Do we have any ideas for an agenda?<br>
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One that I'm in the middle of, so it comes to mind, is best practices for<br>
Installfests. But that's just an idea...<br>
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Have fun,<br>
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Paul<br>
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