Baton Rouge Linux User Group. I think that sort of sums up the area. There are not a great number of us. A thread got started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] about a way to promote and coordinate Open Source at LSU.
I think that is a great cause, and at least two slackers from BRLUG are also on campus. After hearing the comments of the group, I thought a LUG would be the perfect solution. Albeit I begged off of much a role. I now have to research irons in the fire, and I was not hired on as a researcher. (The AgCenter is open-mided about where the ideas come from.) An lsu.edu mailing list and an lsu.edu site would add credibility to the uninitiated on-campus, but I really do not want to be involved with anything that would take anything away from the BRLUG. I think having an established LUG with ties to O'Riley is a better idea. The LSU Chapter of the Greater Baton Rouge Linux User Group. Many on-campus members will (or could be) permanent, but the students will be transitory. I think the continuity would be better served by the involvment of the BRLUG. That is just a slacker's opinion, and I am very often really wrong. As I said, I do not want to take anything away from the work you, John, and Dustin have done. i admire the both of you more than mere words can express for your tireless efforts on all of our behalf. The two of you do not get enough thank you's. Y'all have a lot of great help too, and God bless them all. I am sorry I fell out picture for a while, but these two projects, if we can get them to fruition, will be a great boon to local farmers, and the other to all impared people in the south. I cannot wait until I can show you my babies and see if y'all think they're pretty, but LSU is real picky about Intellectual Property. You have to sign really ugly agreements to get their help, but once they wade in they don't hold back. It is nice to know think my ideas have merit. Now all we have to do is prove it. I'll be back, hopefully with some cash to buy some computers for the lab. The ugly agreement does give me a share, but I have to give it back to the community. Trust me, the first idea is so slap your head stupidly obvious, I cannot belive we are going to get a patent on it. It would be like playing poker with the blind to keep that money. The second idea is to help impaired people. What kind of low-life takes money from the handi-capped? No, I'll be giving my share to the BRLUG, The March of Dimes, And the Heart and Lung assoc. If there is any money. Hey, how about a BRLUG endowed chair at the AgCenter? No that would be cool. We could set up a chair to encourge the use of Open Source software and Open Standards in research... Pipe dreams for a year or two, but trust me, these are necessary, obvious as the nose on you face, ideas. I am not a genius. I just tinker, and see stuff. What should we do the money? I hereby promise the BRLUG thirty percent of whatever I get from my two current projects if all of the funds go to the non-profit undertaking a committee elected by our email list approves by a unanimous vote. If and when the BRLUG gets money, mine or anyone else's what should we do with it? Do we owe any to the Cajun Clicker's? Granted the projects I am working on are still in research, but I have the BRLUG named on an insurace policy in case the famliy goes together. God forbid the state get it! What would we do with ten grand or ten hundred grand? Food for thought. What do the by-laws say? Doug --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Doug, > > Please define what you mean by "mini BRLUG". I > perceive that as being an > off-shoot of BRLUG, or somehow under the umbrella of > BRLUG. I don't think > this would attract interest at LSU among LSU > faculty. I'm sure that BRLUG > members who are connected somehow to LSU would feel > free to be members of > both, or even to leave BRLUG and join a separate LSU > related Linux group. > > The goal, IMO, is to promote Linux advocacy, not > BRLUG advocacy. > > I'm not trying to raise a platoon sargeant's dander > here; just trying to > understand why you want an LSU LUG to be a "mini > BRLUG". :) > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Riddle > To: [email protected] > Sent: 9/30/03 2:30 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] LSU LUG? > > More later, but I am thinking a mini Brlug. There > is > interest in an LSU site to organize Open Source > software efforts and software. There is interest in > day time meetings. A mailing list would be great, > and > I do not think the BRLUG should pick up the tab or > the > labor. However, a campus LUG would be constantly > shifting. BRLUG would be the hub, a campus LUG > would > have to come to papa to get anything done. A campus > LUG might be able to get something the BRLUG has > always had problems with though... Money. > > More later. This came up through complaints. It > will > all come out in the wash. > > No hurries, no worries. There is time... > > Doug > > --- Karthik Poobalasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I am very much interested and i did ask around the > > brlug asking if there's > > a group or start a user group on campus. I asked > > around on campus too. > > There are two guys who for for HPC who use linux > for > > their day to day > > work. almost an year back they tried to get my > > netgear wireless card to > > work with redhat. well one of them is the one > > hosting redhat.lsu.edu. > > > > I think there are a lot of people who are > interested > > or already using Open > > Source/Linux solutions for official work.we all > know > > for a fact that the > > math dept hosts a debian mirror! . last week a big > > grant(i > > don't the figure but i think it should be in 7 > > digits) was given to LSU > > for developing a linux cluster. > > I think its perfect time to get people interested > in > > Open Source/Linux. > > > > well here's the thing. I am not really sure if it > > should be a fully > > fledged lug or a mini-brlug. I am really split > about > > this. on one hand a > > lsulug(or whatever) would be cool and name could > be > > associated with LSU. > > As Doug said "if it doesn't end in lsu.edu, it > > cannot > > possibly relate to LSU". > > On the other hand i see that it would be better to > > get people involved in > > brlug 'cause we already an established group. > > Isaac Traxler kinda suggested that we start a sig > > with ACM and when it > > gets momentum we can start our own LUG. > > > > What do you guys think. > > > > Karthik > > > > > > > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Doug Riddle wrote: > > > > > I am way short on time, but I am spend what I > have > > at > > > LSU lately. The has been some interest in an > Open > > > Source clearing house/home page/Linux sort of > site > > on > > > the LSU-ITINFO mailing list. I remember some > > traffic > > > about an LSU LUG a while back. > > > > > > Is anyone actively working an LSU LUG? I know a > > few > > > folks that are interested in backing something > > like > > > that, and I might know where we could get some > > server > > > space for a site. > > > > > > I am thinking of a campus-centered mini-BRLUG. > A > > > place where the LSU-centric > > > software/hardware/education-centered issues can > be > > > housed. > > > > > > It seems that if it doesn't end in lsu.edu, it > > cannot > > > possibly relate to LSU. > > > > > > I will be honest, I am swamped, and can do > little > > more > > > than cheer, but I would love to try to put the > > right > > > people in touch with one another if there is any > > > interest. > > > > > > BTW. Anyone know where I can get some pheromone > > > detectors cheap? > > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > Warmest Regards, > > > > > > Doug Riddle > > > http://www.dougriddle.com > > > http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ > > > http://www.libranet.com > > > -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution > > in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty > Teeth." > > - George Washington -- > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > The New Yahoo! 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