Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Tsk. Brook's Law applies. Facilities and publication turns out to be relatively easy. Finding speakers is apparently the really hard job. A suggestion here: What I found as a leader of the group was that it was very hard to figure out WHAT people wanted to HEAR about. Therefore every

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
The important thing is consistency. People drop in without checking the -announce list, if they know they can count on it. I agree with this for the most part. People set aside time for the meeting, and they get upset when it is intermittent. We suffered from this with Martha's Exchange,

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2010 06:42:37 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Tsk. Brook's Law applies. Facilities and publication turns out to be relatively easy. Finding speakers is apparently the really hard job. A suggestion here: What I found as a leader of the group was that

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2010 08:50:29 -0400, Paul Courchene vze76...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Good Morning, I would be willing to do a coreboot presentation, if it sparks some interest? Not only CoreBoot, but it seems to me that Set Top Linux App's and Embedded S/W on a popular box would be

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I would be willing to do a coreboot presentation, if it sparks some interest? Joe, I would be very interested in a presentation on coreboot. Unfortunately I will be out of the country until the end of May. But thank you for validating my premise. md

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:05:32 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I would be willing to do a coreboot presentation, if it sparks some interest? Joe, I would be very interested in a presentation on coreboot. Unfortunately I will be out of the country until the end of May. But

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:05:32 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I would be willing to do a coreboot presentation, if it sparks some interest? ... I am pretty busy at the moment myself, but I was thinking a

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
The only thing about July 5th is that it is at the end of the July 4th weekend, and you may not get as many people. md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:50:59 -0400, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:05:32 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I would be willing to do a coreboot presentation, if it sparks some

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:51:14 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: The only thing about July 5th is that it is at the end of the July 4th weekend, and you may not get as many people. Should we shoot for Aug 2nd then? -- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Ted Roche
August it is! Several of our regulars have projectors they can bring. I'll poll the group and have one for you. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:34:29 -0400, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: August it is! Several of our regulars have projectors they can bring. I'll poll the group and have one for you. Excellent :-) Looking forward to educating the community August 2nd :-) -- Thanks, Joseph Smith

Re: Nokia N900 // GPS, again

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: How's the GPS? I heard from someone that the N810's GPS was lacking, I had heard same on N810 and N900, so didn't have high expectations and so haven't tested extensively. I vaguely think it's supposed to be quicker