[CALUG] Tux.org at FOSE

[David A. Cafaro]

Excellent follow up.

As a suggestion, I would recommend someone from CALUG running for the  
Tux.org Board (Jim, I think you would be a great candidate).  Tux.org  
as some great resources and contacts, but the Board Members (me being  
included) have been swamped as of late and unable to make as much  
headway as possible.  Given my past work with CALUG I've tried to  
spend some time getting some connections going, but not nearly enough.

Because of life events keeping me busy, I won't be continuing on the  
Tux.org BoD.  Another reason why it would be great to get someone  
active in CALUG on the board.  Though Tux.org certainly isn't perfect,  
it's got a good start with resources (servers/hardware, hosting, 503  
Tax status, contacts), and just needs more active development work.

Cheers,
David

PS, Send me the current contact info and I can get the website updated  
at Tux.org.



On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Jim Sansing wrote:

> To everyone who wasn't at the meeting last night (and as a follow-up  
> to
> those who were), I had a great time at FOSE, in spite of the fact  
> that I
> was standing all day except for a 1/2 hour lunch break.  The best part
> was the enthusiasm of people coming to the booth--we didn't have a  
> break
> in the traffic for at least 4 hours.  The next best part was meeting
> people from other LUGs.  And that started me thinking (again) that we
> should try to establish more contact with them--like at least once or
> twice a year.
>
> I checked out the http://www.tux.org site today.  The events besides
> FOSE where tux.org has manned a booth include LISA (2006) and DC PHP
> (2006).  Based on my participation at FOSE this year, they are pretty
> good at getting a booth and setting it up.  But since they don't do it
> very often, they ended up scrambling for stuff to hand out and there
> wasn't a co-ordinated message.
>
> I printed a couple hundred data sheets about CALUG and the Ubuntu
> Maryland Community Team, and that was the only info anyone coming to  
> the
> booth could take away with them.  There was a tux.org banner, and we
> told people to visit the site for other LUGs.  For swag, we had a  
> box of
> Linux Journals and a bunch of bootable CDs/DVDs.  However, a lot of  
> them
> were for 64-bit machines.
>
> There was a mailing list set up for everyone who volunteered to work  
> at
> FOSE, and there is still a lot of discussion going on about packing  
> up,
> so I'm going to wait a couple of days and send a follow-up email to  
> find
> out how much is already happening between the other area LUGs.
>
> While it's a starting point, tux.org it isn't being real actively
> maintained.  By that, I mean that there are a lot of stale links to  
> LUGs
> (and the CALUG link has the wrong contact info).  However, over half  
> of
> the links are still good, so it is an interesting list.  To build
> relationships, it will probably take contacting each one individually,
> and I would like to have some idea of what we at CALUG would like to  
> do
> before starting that.
>
> Personally, I think it would be best to start small.  But maybe Bridge
> Education, introduced to us last night by Tom Vielandi as the  
> Canonical
> representative for the area, would be willing to let us use some of
> their 8 classrooms for a 6 - 8 hour conference on a weekend (they  
> would
> obviously get to put their literature in the hands of people with a
> known interest in FOSS IT).  With that, we could ask the closest  
> LUGs to
> host 1 or 2 presentations / events each, and then invite all of the
> Mid-Atlantic LUGs, as well as the general public, to attend.  At the  
> end
> of the day, we could have a 'where we go from here' meeting, and I'm
> sure we could set up a mailing list on tux.org for inter-LUG  
> communication.
>
> At the very least, we should be able to do a bang-up job of  
> representing
> Linux at every IT event in the area.
>
> So what are your thoughts?
>
> Later . . .   Jim
>
>
> Haroon Khalid wrote:
>> Do you know of any other upcoming events similar to the FOSE event? I
>> would like to start attending some open source related events like
>> this one.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Jim Sansing <jjsansing at verizon.net
>> <mailto:jjsansing at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    I have volunteered to work the Tux.org booth at FOSE.  I will be  
>> there
>>    on Tues., the day before the next CALUG meeting.  However, if
>>    anyone has
>>    any swag that I could hand out to advertise CALUG or Linux in  
>> general,
>>    I'd be happy to meet with you and pick it up.  Ideas for talking
>>    points
>>    are also welcome.
>>
>>    Later . . .   Jim
>>
>>
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