Ubuntu-us-ky Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
Jordan Keyes
jkeyes0 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 19:34:40 BST 2008
I wouldn't necessarily say we're only a Lexington organization. It
just happens that the majority of people who organize things are in or
around Lexington. If someone wanted to organize things elsewhere, we
would be open to it.
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On Oct 19, 2008, at 11:50 AM, "Scott Horan" <shoran at insightbb.com>
wrote:
> Are we still pretty much a Lexington organization?
>
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> 1. Re: IRL Meeting (Nathaniel McCallum)
> 2. Re: IRL Meeting (Eric Lake)
> 3. Re: IRL Meeting (Brian King)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:17:53 -0400
> From: Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel at natemccallum.com>
> Subject: Re: IRL Meeting
> To: Kentucky LoCo Team mailing list <ubuntu-us-ky at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: bglug at www.bglug.net, bglug at googlegroups.com
> Message-ID: <48FA2851.2070701 at natemccallum.com>
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> Something fun would be nice once and a while. However, I have a hard
> time justifying time away on a Saturday without anything to be gained
> from it. The merge of LPLUG, etc was a good idea, but I want to make
> sure we don't forget that the main purpose of a LUG is to provide a
> place of learning. I can watch a pixar movie at home with my family,
> but I can't learn to program, or see what other people are
> deploying, or
> learn about new OSS markets, etc.
>
> LPLUG had regular meetings. When the topic was scheduled way in
> advance, we had great turn out. When it was done last minute, we
> didn't. We often had technical meetings which were fantastic. Having
> technical meetings being the driving force made the "get together and
> watch a movie" all the more fun.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is, lets make a standing meeting whenever
> (don't
> care when). Lets make it primarily technical in nature and announce
> the
> topic a month in advance. Then once or twice a year, lets have a fun
> time watching a movie or a party or something like that. I think this
> will provide the best benefit to everyone.
>
> Nathaniel
>
> Eric Lake wrote:
>> Some of us were able to make it to OLF this year and it was awesome
>> (IMHO). One thing that they had there was an Open Movie theater. HP
>> put this on and it was set up to showcase movies about FOSS or ones
>> that were made using FOSS. I think that this would be a good thing to
>> do for us as a meeting soon. We could pick a movie, eat some popcorn,
>> geek out, etc. The movies that I have in mind are the following:
>>
>> Silicon Valley
>> Revolution OS
>> Anti-Trust
>>
>> What other movies can you think of. My understanding is that Pixar
>> uses a farm of Linux boxes to render their movies. We could open it
>> up
>> to these movies too and bring your whole family.
>>
>> On a similar note some of us have discussed having a set day and time
>> for meetings. We were thinking something like the 3rd Saturday of the
>> month. That way we can all schedule around this time and we will be
>> able to get used to meeting on a regular basis. One thing that we
>> would need to decide on is a place to meet. It would be best to
>> have a
>> place that we could go to all of the time so that we don't have to
>> look for a new location each month.
>>
>> What are your thoughts, concerns, criticisms, ideas?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric Lake
>>
>> "No one of us alone can make this work. We will have to work
>> together."
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:33:50 -0400
> From: Eric Lake <ericlake at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IRL Meeting
> To: Kentucky LoCo Team mailing list <ubuntu-us-ky at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: bglug at googlegroups.com, bglug at www.bglug.net
> Message-ID: <48FA644E.4050506 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> My thought for this movie night idea is that it may entice people to
> come out. It has been quite a while since we last met and this would
> act
> as a way of jump starting the regular meetings. I'm with you
> Nathaniel,
> I want to have some real tech meetings too. We should start a real
> list
> of topics that we would like to have covered and ones that the
> individual members are willing to lead.
>
> Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>> Something fun would be nice once and a while. However, I have a hard
>> time justifying time away on a Saturday without anything to be gained
>> from it. The merge of LPLUG, etc was a good idea, but I want to make
>> sure we don't forget that the main purpose of a LUG is to provide a
>> place of learning. I can watch a pixar movie at home with my family,
>> but I can't learn to program, or see what other people are
>> deploying, or
>> learn about new OSS markets, etc.
>>
>> LPLUG had regular meetings. When the topic was scheduled way in
>> advance, we had great turn out. When it was done last minute, we
>> didn't. We often had technical meetings which were fantastic.
>> Having
>> technical meetings being the driving force made the "get together and
>> watch a movie" all the more fun.
>>
>> I guess what I'm saying is, lets make a standing meeting whenever
>> (don't
>> care when). Lets make it primarily technical in nature and
>> announce the
>> topic a month in advance. Then once or twice a year, lets have a fun
>> time watching a movie or a party or something like that. I think
>> this
>> will provide the best benefit to everyone.
>>
>> Nathaniel
>>
>
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Lake
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:06:06 -0400
> From: "Brian King" <brianking.home at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IRL Meeting
> To: "Kentucky LoCo Team mailing list" <ubuntu-us-ky at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: bglug at googlegroups.com, bglug at www.bglug.net
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> Well said, Nathan.
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Nathaniel McCallum <
> nathaniel at natemccallum.com> wrote:
>
>> Something fun would be nice once and a while. However, I have a hard
>> time justifying time away on a Saturday without anything to be gained
>> from it. The merge of LPLUG, etc was a good idea, but I want to make
>> sure we don't forget that the main purpose of a LUG is to provide a
>> place of learning. I can watch a pixar movie at home with my family,
>> but I can't learn to program, or see what other people are
>> deploying, or
>> learn about new OSS markets, etc.
>>
>> LPLUG had regular meetings. When the topic was scheduled way in
>> advance, we had great turn out. When it was done last minute, we
>> didn't. We often had technical meetings which were fantastic.
>> Having
>> technical meetings being the driving force made the "get together and
>> watch a movie" all the more fun.
>>
>> I guess what I'm saying is, lets make a standing meeting whenever
>> (don't
>> care when). Lets make it primarily technical in nature and
>> announce the
>> topic a month in advance. Then once or twice a year, lets have a fun
>> time watching a movie or a party or something like that. I think
>> this
>> will provide the best benefit to everyone.
>>
>> Nathaniel
>>
>> Eric Lake wrote:
>>> Some of us were able to make it to OLF this year and it was awesome
>>> (IMHO). One thing that they had there was an Open Movie theater. HP
>>> put this on and it was set up to showcase movies about FOSS or ones
>>> that were made using FOSS. I think that this would be a good thing
>>> to
>>> do for us as a meeting soon. We could pick a movie, eat some
>>> popcorn,
>>> geek out, etc. The movies that I have in mind are the following:
>>>
>>> Silicon Valley
>>> Revolution OS
>>> Anti-Trust
>>>
>>> What other movies can you think of. My understanding is that Pixar
>>> uses a farm of Linux boxes to render their movies. We could open
>>> it up
>>> to these movies too and bring your whole family.
>>>
>>> On a similar note some of us have discussed having a set day and
>>> time
>>> for meetings. We were thinking something like the 3rd Saturday of
>>> the
>>> month. That way we can all schedule around this time and we will be
>>> able to get used to meeting on a regular basis. One thing that we
>>> would need to decide on is a place to meet. It would be best to
>>> have a
>>> place that we could go to all of the time so that we don't have to
>>> look for a new location each month.
>>>
>>> What are your thoughts, concerns, criticisms, ideas?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Eric Lake
>>>
>>> "No one of us alone can make this work. We will have to work
>>> together."
>>
>>
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