open sc mtg notes

Deepak Saxena deepak@csociety.purdue.edu
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:12:35 -0500 

Hmm..that wasn't supposed to yet...i thought i postponed it.
Anyways, last thoughts:

4) Diversify topics (this was already pointed out). Remember: Not 
   everyone who uses linux is a system administrator.

Ok, that's my ranting.  I know I haven't done my fair share to make
things better, but i do keep trying.  I will get the devel group
of the ground this time, I swear. :)

~Deepak



On Mar 08 2001, at 00:02, Deepak Saxena was caught saying:
> 
> (cc:ing steering as I know some read that more often :)
> 
> My takes on some of these, plus other ideas spread throughout below.
> Really wish I could have been there. Sigh.  No more travel for a few
> weeks though. I may get flamed for some of what I say, so flame 
> shields are on high.
> 
> > can to continue to encourage others to have meetings in other parts of the
> > Valley. We might hold one of the main meetings at new locations as they
> > open up as a means of giving them more support. This goes against the
> > rule of consistently having meetings at the same place/time, though
> > :(. We'll have to decide this as a group as new meetings open up.
> 
> As I mentioned in the steering list, I'm going to try to get a separate
> dev group going every month.  I need to think about how to run this 
> b/c we already have a perl group and a php group in town, and I don't 
> really want to cross into their turf.  I'd like this to focus specifically
> on development ON linux.  So things like gtk, qt, kernel haxoring, 
> autoconf, optimizing with gcc, kgdb, etc, etc. Not how to access a 
> database with php or how to write cool java applets.  That's for the php 
> and java(is there one in town?) groups to discuss.
> 
> > Hans will give Jim a list of places that he believes would host meetings
> > for us. Jim will post that to the discuss list.
> 
> Cool.  I'd love to offer MV, but Hans has been to our offices and knows
> how tiny they are. :(
> 
> > Paul and Carl are going to work working up a 10 year celebration. They're
> > gonna try to get us someone who who has helped it come this far for a
> > keynote speaker. Paul is interested in making it a one or two day seminar.
> 
> ALAN COX baby! :) A one day seminar is a big thing to go for. We need
> some major corp. sponsors and really interesting topics. Let me know
> how I can help.
> 
> > It was suggested to shorten the presentations some in order to give people
> > more time to kibitz after the main presentation. Maybe even form SIGs
> > after the main presentation. A couple of people thought that went well
> > after the alternative architectures meeting, e.g. clusters around Monte
> > Vista embedded and iPaqs.
> 
> This was one of my big things I wanted to bring up.  I suggested that
> when we announce that meetings start @ 7pm, the presentation will start
> by 7:15 AT THE LATEST.  I read slashot, lwn, linux.com, linux journal,
> etc as the most people here and I think it's redundant to spend almost
> one hour sometimes, discussing things that took place maybe three weeks
> ago.  That's what this list is for IMHO. Something interesting is posted
> on slashdot (that's rare these days), and we discuss it here. Don't get
> me wrong, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have open discussions about
> recent news at the meetings, but the main priority should be getting the 
> presentation done. I propose that we restructure the meetings to be:
> 
> 	1) "Hello", plug related announcements
>    2) Presentation + q/a (limit this to 1:15 unless its like Alan Cox)
>    3) Open announcements (php group, jobs, slashdot news, etc, etc)
>    4) People hanging out/bsing/whatever till end time.
> 
> This way those of us that are extremely pressed for time can just show up, 
> watch the presentation and head out.
> 
> OK, now some of the other things I wanted to bring up:
> 
> 1) This topic keeps coming up every so often, but with us wanting
>    to do a 1-2 day thing for the 10th aniversary, I think it might
>    be time to revisit.  Non-profit status.  I think this would help
>    us a lot as it would be easier to get companies to donate money
>    which could be used for things like advertising, equipment, a
>    dedicated high end server/connection, etc, etc.
> 
> 2) Try to get more people from companies (in/out of town) to come
>    talk.  
> 
> 3) Focus on linux related topics for meetings.  We've gotten much
>    better, but in the past we've had some topics which IMHO are not
>    linux related (speedchoice pops to mind). It's a cool subject, yes,
>    but let's focus on growing the linux community and knowledge base
>    in the valley.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Deepak Saxena - deepak@csociety.purdue.edu - phone://602.790.0500
> 
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> 
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Deepak Saxena - deepak@csociety.purdue.edu - phone://602.790.0500

Code Monkey, MontaVista Software, Inc. - THE Embedded Linux Experts

call me 'evil' call me 'tide is on your side' anything that you want
anybody knows you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
  - Tori Amos, "Suede"