[BGLUG] Meeting thoughts

[Rob Turner]

I'll second that on availability to present.  Having my RHCE, 10 years in
the service provider industry, and honestly just a geek that enjoys using
OS, I'm always willing to present or even lead a round table discussion
which sometimes seem more preferred for collaboration.  

As far as a consistent place to meet, I'm not sure the size crowd to
expect at first, but I've been getting more involved in some of the local
business groups such as Awesome, Inc (http://awesomeinc.org).  They have a
decent size conference room and game room that is used interchangeably for
larger meetings.  As a collocated work space and business incubator, they
charge $25/hr for conference room use.  However, they also work closely
with and/or organize groups that foster creativity and technology groups
so they may not charge for a group such as bglug.

As far as content suggestions, some that come to mind that I could offer
to the group immediately are:

Vyatta
Pirahna/LVS
LVM
Zenoss
Nagios
Cacti
Zimbra
SugarCRM
FreeNX
Thinstation
Freeradius
NST

There are many other projects and more general discussions I could think
of but this could easily cover a few meetings so just for grins, what
other topics/projects do people here know of that may be of interest to
the group?

Rob Turner, RHCE
ProTack, LLC
(859) 721-0262 - Office
(859) 721-0269 - Fax


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathaniel McCallum [mailto:nathaniel at natemccallum.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:12 AM
To: Jordan Keyes
Cc: Rob Turner; ericlake at ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [BGLUG] Meeting thoughts

As I have consistently mentioned, both here and elsewhere...

I have the great privilege of working in Open Source.  This enables me 
to present on a wide variety of topics and I'd be glad to present at any 
time.  Just give me a date and I'll suggest topics.

Nathaniel

On 06/17/2009 11:08 PM, Jordan Keyes wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Three things prevent us from having regular meetings:
> 1. We don't have a 100% stable location (we've had meetings at various
> churches, a school, and coffee shops over the last year)
> 2. Very few ideas have been put forth, and even fewer presenters.
> 3. We could do every X Saturday of the month, but without ideas to
> present we haven't been motivated to. LPLUG used to meet during the week
> over lunch, but quite a few of our members are not from Lexington, so we
> couldn't make it there on a lunch hour.
>
> I'm all for the idea of having a clear agenda and having a set monthly
> meeting on a specific Saturday if we can come up with a location. I'll
> even work on having presentations ready for every meeting, even if it's
> just "recent news in the linux world".
>
> Any ideas on a location to have meetings? The ideal location would be a
> conference room at a business, or something to that effect, but that
> generally requires the IT guy at the business being a part of the group,
> or being open to the idea, so we could have access to a projector and
> their network (at least an open wireless point).
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Rob Turner <rob at protackllc.com
> <mailto:rob at protackllc.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm all for it.  Personally I have missed the structured organized
>     meetings like those at lplug.  To have the community I've been
>     attending the Lexmug meetings and Geeks Night Out type of events
>     when offered.  They are always more successful when a clear agenda
>     is presented or posted on the calendar a month in advance.
>       What is preventing a monthly meeting every x day every month?
>
>
>     Rob
>
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>
>     From: ericlake at ubuntu.com <mailto:ericlake at ubuntu.com>
>     Sent: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:11:00 America/New_York
>     To: ubuntu-us-ky at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto:ubuntu-us-ky at lists.ubuntu.com>,bglug at www.bglug.net
>     <mailto:bglug at www.bglug.net>
>     Subject: [BGLUG] Meeting thoughts
>
>     It has been a while since we last had a meeting (IRL or otherwise).
What
>     do you all think of trying to get something together to have a
meeting
>     around the end of July? We really had a great meet-up when we did
the
>     gaming night. Maybe we can do that again. I really want to see
jkeyes0's
>     django presentation too.
>
>     So the idea is now out there. What are your thoughts, ideas,
>     contributions to getting something going. Reply all to this thread
to
>     get the ideas going.
>
>
>     --
>
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Eric Lake
>
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