West Side PLUG, was: Re: Last Warning
Deepak Saxena
deepak@csociety.purdue.edu
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:35:47 -0700
umm...isn't GCC on the east side? I thought by west side we were talking
about phoenix/peoria/etc. Have I been confused these last 3 years about
the local nomenclature??
~Deepak
On Mar 07 2001, at 19:44, foodog was caught saying:
> I'm happy to say I was previously mislead: GCC can be used for meetings
> as long as someone who's an employee attends the meetings - that'll be
> me initially.
>
> For those familiar with GCC, I have my eye on the HT1 Teleconference
> room. It's comfortable, spacious, and has networking - I'll need to do
> some negotiating for a network connection but I think it can happen.
>
> What we need to do is determine a day and time that would be good for
> the largest number of people. The room's generally available evenings.
> Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6:00pm are usually free, for example. I
> can check on proposed dates within one day, and reserve the room.
>
> I'll commit to arranging space for 3 months for starters; indefinitely
> if the experience proves to be "better than a poke in the eye with a
> sharp stick".
>
> "der.hans" wrote:
> > ...
> > The main thing is to follow up with whoever runs to location to make sure
> > it keeps getting reserved after the initial setup. The rest is up to you
> > and those who show up. Easiest is to just hang out and do installfest
> > things as people show up.
>
> I've had kinda a negative experience w/ installfest so I don't want to
> rely on that too much :-). I think I could fill about 30 minutes and
> not screw up too badly with something like "intro. security for home
> users": inventorying services and killing them, installing portsentry
> and logcheck. I can usually type "rpm -i"
> with the best of em.
>
> > part of GCC is one of the advantages to doing this as PLUG. Not to say
> > anything bad about GCC, but there are politics and indifference in any
> > such organization to overcome. ...
>
> Not being a student club avoids *many* annoying problems and
> negotiations.
>
> > 2nd Thu is PLUG. 3rd Tue is Linux Stammtisch. 3rd Wed is ASULUG. I'd
> > suggest not conflicting with those :).
>
> Just to get the ball rolling, how about the last Tuesday of the month at
> 6pm? That'd be 3/27.
>
> Steve
>
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