I look forward to making it on the 7th of March... I'll have to check with my scheduling agent (My wife) but I hope to be there.
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:05 -0600, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > > Well by this time tomorrow we should be half done with our first > > "nonfood" meeting in a couple years. I look forward to seeing some old > > faces and hopefully some new ones. We will be meeting in the Bremmer > > Room at the New St. Cloud Library. I am bringing Mar, J and B3 to check > > out the library while we have our meeting. Planning on short lunch after > > the meeting some place in town following the meeting. I you are coming > > and have an idea where to go speak up. I am partial to "American Food" > > and IMO cheap is good with the current economy. I will throw my Arby's > > 10 gallon hat in the ring to start things out. > > > > One thing I would lot to talk about at the meeting is the website[1] > > again. Our original domain name has been released by the squatters who > > picked it up a few years ago, IMO we should try to get that back if we > > can raise some money for it we can do that at the meeting, we have some > > funds in our "account" from when I was able to sell some computers and > > media a while back. As far as the site itself goes I think we need a CMS > > solution so everyone can contribute and it is not limited to a single > > person or two keeping it updated. For a couple other projects I am > > looking at a CMS solution called Zikula[2]. If you have other ideas we > > should talk about them. > > > > Arby's 1 > > > > Bob > > > > [1] http://scalug.us/ > > [2] http://zikula.org/ > > > > Today the St. Cloud Area Linux Users Group (scaLUG) had it's first real > meeting in about 2 years. We figured out that this is scaLUG v4.0. The > LUG has come and gone over the years and a few of us have been through > this a couple times so we are a bit cautious of investing a lot of time, > our current numbers being low does not help this. Our numbers will > improve as time goes on but getting there is discouraging. > > We are meeting at the "New" Great River Regional Library here in St. > Cloud. It is a nice facility for us, things for our families to do while > we meet. There is free wifi in the building and three nice well equiped > meeting rooms that can be used for no charge. > > In attendance were Myself, Mike Demars, David Sundquist, Adam > Barthelemy, Steve Williams, Tom Cross, Callum Lerwick and Lee Lorentz. > We discussed the meeting frequency, location and time. Talked a bit > about topic ideas and came up with a few to get us started. An issue > that we have had open for a long time is our website and domain name. We > have been using scalug.us domain ever since our .org domain was picked > up by a squatter years ago. The .org is again available we agreed to use > club funds we have from donations made to scaLUG v3.0. We talked about > site content and it was agreed that we should go with a CMS solution so > "web bastard" duties do not fall on the shoulders of one or two people > as they have in the past. The only idea brought forward was Zikula, this > is the CMS that Fedora Docs is deploying. I have only looked at it > lightly, I hope to get a demo deployed this weekend to make sure it will > fit our needs and not be too overwhelming. > > > We have committed to having a topic meeting the first Saturday in March > and April, the topic for the April has been set, Tom Cross will be > pimping Trixbox/Asterisk and general VoIP. Tom was the founder of the > LUG when it first started and has been a great mentor for many in the > community, I look forward to his presentation he always does a great job > of getting people interested and fired up. The March meeting the ball is > in my court, not sure what I am going to do yet. I have kicked around > the idea of "Packaging with RPM and Becoming a Fedora Contributor." > > If you have other suggestions for topics please let me know them it > would be nice to hear what other LUGs are doing to keep users interested > and educated. > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > scalug-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/scalug-list > -- "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." -Thomas Paine <><
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