[Lugcomms] Fwd: Meeting next week! Tuesday #linux-aus-lugs at irc.freenode.net < tonight!

Tue May 26 03:10:13 EST 2009

Hi to/from CQLUG,

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!

My thoughts on what happened last month
(my comments marked "donak}" and I edited freely)

1. OpenDisc

PaulWay: Software Freedom Day.
PaulWay: Is there any point in me organising another CD giveaway?
bob2: PaulWay: aren't there lots of leftovers?

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?)
donak} we're just not set up for 500 discs, 100 to 200 would be enough to
handle

from later in the meet:
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.
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
donak} -minus install scripts, purely as a demo disc, to avoid potential
liability (perceived or real) for "you lost my files"
donak} -if they express interest in installing, drag them along to an
installfest

2. Conferences, Meetings etc.

PaulWay: OSDC, KCA, other conferences - what's coming up?
jhesketh: Kernel conference Australia?
hypatia: Stephen Thorne (Jerub) tweeted today that the OSDC CFP is about to
come out.
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.
hypatia: There's an NZ PyCon later this year, I think. Yep, early November:
http://nz.pycon.org/
jhesketh: Zookeepr (on a conference note) has been making large strides
thanks to the recent hackfest in Melbourne

hypatia: Is there a good AU/NZ calendar of FOSS events?

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.

hypatia: Really LA would be best placed to host one.
hypatia: Oh, SAGE-AU is coming up. It's not all Free, but there's quite a
bit of overlap: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Home
yama: OpenAustralia hackfest on 6 June, co-hosted by SLUG and Google at
Google in Pyrmont, Sydney
hypatia: Special interest: http://2009.foss4g.org/
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
http://www.linux.org.au/taxonomy/term/5 but it needs lots more input
methods.

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.
donak} That said, a couple of others are members of SAGE here, I believe

3. Face to Face and other communications channels

PaulWay: Is there any 'official' LA word on the idea of a face-to-face LUG
meetup?
PaulWay: Any 'unofficial' word?
PaulWay: Is anyone even interested in meeting up face-to-face with other LUG
coordinators?
hypatia: I am not so much, but it might have been useful back in the SLUG
days.
PaulWay: How do you mean?
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?
hypatia: Well, mostly discussing governance models, maybe organising speaker
swaps, regional LUGs getting visits from capital city LUGs, and so on.

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.
PaulWay: hypatia: my problem here is that by the time anyone moves on
anything in LA it's way past the actual meeting time.
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.

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...

hypatia: Seems like a chicken and egg problem. If we gave them a reason to
mention it, they might mention it.
hypatia: Like "SLUG is short a speaker in June, anyone think they'll be up
Sydney way?"
hypatia: Which means using lugcomms more aggressively.

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
donak} but ... as I said about conferences, we're a long way north
donak} the mailing lists / IRC is all good as communications media ... as
long as I remember to read 'em and/or attend :-)
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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?
I'm grateful for the mailing list hosted by Linux Australia, it's the
centre-piece of our communications at the moment ...
See you all tomorrow ... err, tonight ...
-- 
Don Knowles
PO Box 358 Rockhampton 4700 AUSTRALIA
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Date: Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM
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Donna Benjamin wrote:
| Reminder - meeting is next week.

Yay!  Do we have any ideas for an agenda?

One that I'm in the middle of, so it comes to mind, is best practices for
Installfests.  But that's just an idea...

Have fun,

Paul
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