[ubuntu-us-ma] Potential Meeting Locations
felicia wichrowski
felicia02652 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 15:24:38 BST 2009
If some of you guys are in the city without a car I can pick you up at a T
stop or something and then drive to Wilmington High. Unfortunately I won't
be able to get out of P-town June-September.
FeliciaW
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Linane, Jack <
jack.linane at wilmington.k12.ma.us> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am new to your newsletters and have not been able to attend the meeting
> due to work schedules. If you are stuck I am sure I can get access to 1 of
> our many labs at the Wilmington High School. Wilmington High is right off
> 93.
>
> Jack Linane
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> 1. Re: Potential Meeting Locations (John Abreau)
> 2. Re: Potential Meeting Locations (Theresa Hepburn)
> 3. Re: Potential Meeting Locations (Jonathan M. Prigot)
> 4. Re: Potential Meeting Locations (felicia wichrowski)
> 5. Re: Potential Meeting Locations (Martin Owens)
> 6. Re: Potential Meeting Locations (Martin Owens)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:18:07 -0400
> From: John Abreau <jabr at gapps.blu.org>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Potential Meeting Locations
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> I heard back from MIT's user group support people. They tell me
> a user group needs an MIT sponsor in order to request rooms,
> and that sponsors must be either MIT staff members or MIT alumni.
>
> Is anyone in the Ubuntu group an MIT alumnus?
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mick Timony
> <mick.timony+ubuntuforums at gmail.com <mick.timony%2Bubuntuforums at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:26 AM, John Abreau <jabr at gapps.blu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Mick Timony <mick.timony at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > BLU (Boston Linux Users) meet at MIT. Would it be possible to ask them
> >> > for
> >> > sponsorship for a room at MIT?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I had assumed this thread was bout alternating between MIT and other
> >> locations. ?Are you in fact no longer able to meet at MIT?
> >
> >
> > That's basically it! The person who sponsored the group is not long at
> MIT.
> >
> > Martin has the full details, he sent an e-mail out earlier saying the
> > following:
> >
> > "Steve Pomeroy was our sponsor at the MIT Media Lab, he allowed us to
> > book rooms for both our meeting and some of our "Installfests" we had
> > last year.
> >
> > But he has just gotten a new job across the road and is no longer in
> > that privileged position to be able to organise such space. I also get
> > the feeling that Steve is busy doing his own research activities and so
> > can't really play as big of a role in the group as he might have wanted.
> >
> > So, we managed to get emergency space at MIT Media Lab for our last
> > meeting on Steve's last day. The primary focus of that meeting was
> > finding new space. Many of the action items are related there for to
> > that task and thus people who agreed to look stuff up have been
> > reporting back with their findings.
> >
> > Hopefully this clears stuff up."
> >
> >>
> >> BLU doesn't have any rights to schedule rooms for other groups, but
> >> I could ask the scheduling people if there's a process for new user
> groups
> >> to register in order to be allowed to hold meetings there.
> >>
> >>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:34:33 -0400
> From: Theresa Hepburn <theresa.hepburn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Potential Meeting Locations
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> > I heard back from MIT's user group support people. They tell me
> > a user group needs an MIT sponsor in order to request rooms,
> > and that sponsors must be either MIT staff members or MIT alumni.
> >
> > Is anyone in the Ubuntu group an MIT alumnus?
> >
> I am MIT staff until July 1st.
>
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> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:51:33 -0400
> From: "Jonathan M. Prigot" <jprigot at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Potential Meeting Locations
> To: theresa.hepburn at gmail.com, Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community
> Team <ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I'm an alum of BU, so I can try to work that if the MIT thing falls
> through.
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:34 -0400, Theresa Hepburn wrote:
> >
> > > I heard back from MIT's user group support people. They tell me
> > > a user group needs an MIT sponsor in order to request rooms,
> > > and that sponsors must be either MIT staff members or MIT alumni.
> > >
> > > Is anyone in the Ubuntu group an MIT alumnus?
> > >
> > I am MIT staff until July 1st.
> >
> >
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:00:28 -0400
> From: felicia wichrowski <felicia02652 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Potential Meeting Locations
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> Well put Martin...
> I think we all know its only a matter of time before Microsoft is just
> rubble...and perhaps they would open their doors to our "Trojan Horse". Is
> the South End Tech Center not avail. for one Thursday a month?
> FeliciaW
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:51 -0400, Brian Fallik wrote:
> > > [dusts off his Ubuntu MA jacket]
> > >
> > > I was talking to a friend tonight who works for Microsoft at their new
> > > location at One Mem Drive. He mentioned that they have an entire
> > > floor of conference rooms which they often provide to local community
> > > groups. Irony aside, I can put you all in touch with him if you'd
> > > like to explore that option. I mentioned it as a joke but he seemed
> > > like they'd seriously be interested in it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > brian
> >
> > It's a fascinating idea, but if you just think about it... From our
> > perspective it might be a bit dishonest to ask for their generosity so
> > we can plan how best to remove their most prized hegemony from the
> > market place.
> >
> > Although I certainly wouldn't mind chatting with folks from there at any
> > other time.
> >
> > What do people think?
> >
> > Regards, MArtin
> >
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> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:23:04 -0400
> From: Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
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> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:23 -0400, Chrystal Bonner wrote:
> > There could be bugs in the BPL too. Just kidding but ya never know.
> > :) Just wanted to lighten up the talk for a second. I hope all
> > recognized my attempts to get someone to smile. As a new person on
> > board, I am still learning about Ubuntu and it's community so I can
> > relate to all sides of this train of thought I am also on a Macbook.
> > I know, I know, MArtin already schooled me. However I recently
> > purchased an Ubuntu Dell mini for my daughter and I want her to be
> > cutting edge and on top of the independent spirit and mind that is
> > found at ubuntu. I also want her to recognize that we are sort all in
> > this together whether we like it or not and so with that comes some
> > growing pains now and then. Especially in this market.
>
> Thanks Chrystal,
>
> Although I don't mind people choosing Apple Macs, although getting
> Ubuntu installed on them as a dual boot is a good idea ;-) choice and
> all that.
>
> I installed it under parallels the other day, ran great.
>
> The BPL would be a fun good place to get, no harm in asking. Has anyone
> phoned and asked a human being yet?
>
> Regards, Martin Owens
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:27:16 -0400
> From: Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Potential Meeting Locations
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> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 16:00 -0400, felicia wichrowski wrote:
> > Well put Martin...
> > I think we all know its only a matter of time before Microsoft is just
> > rubble...and perhaps they would open their doors to our "Trojan
> > Horse". Is the South End Tech Center not avail. for one Thursday a
> > month?
>
> Well I'm thinking there might be a few employees there who aren't too
> keen on all this 'asset maximisation' strategy we know as proprietary
> closed source software.
>
> But then again, it really is against their corperate culture, this is
> the company that stood behind the big shift from academic sharing, to
> closed off boxed products in software when this was all kicking off.
>
> Even if a majority of employees wanted to, they'd have to get rid of
> most of their upper management and share holders before they could turn
> that kind of mindset around.
>
> Anyway, enough of that. Invite the folks at the Microsoft lab to our
> Release Party, I still do want the chance to talk.
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
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