I'm in charge. If someone is interested in helping John with this then that would be cool.
-- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ john_re wrote: > Hello from Berkeley, BRLUGers :) > > Please tell me - who is in charge in this group? > > I ask because I'm wondering: who are the person(s) who might be the ones > to help arrange & coordinate an inter group meeting? > > I wonder that, because I'm putting together a great new event, a global > GNU(Linux)/BSD type software & free culture meeting. > > It is a meeting for people interested in learning about, using & > creating GNU & BSD type software & culture. > > I call the local Berkeley meeting the BerkeleyTIP - > (Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty) > > And I call the global simultaneous set of local meetings the > Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting. > > I'm wondering > 1) If anyone at your group might be interested in joining together in > this event with others around the world, and if so, then > 2) who might be the person(s) to head up handling arrangements, & > coordination, etc, for the joint meeting? > > If this sounds to you like it might be interesting, here is some info > for you to read: > > ===== CONTENTS: > 1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING > 2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR > 3) WHAT TO DO NEXT > 4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2, SATURDAY > FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING? > 5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING > 6) SUMMARY > > ===================================================================== > ===== 1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING ===== > > The basic idea is a monthly meeting, a full day at the beginning of each > month, the first Saturday of each month, simultaneous throughout Earth, > with these four components: > > There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of activities: > 1) TALKS Talks by various speakers (stream/DL video globally) > 2) INSTALLFEST Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux software. > 3) POTLUCK Bring food to share or $5: eat, chat (optional) > 4) PROGRAMMING PARTY Write SW on your. or a group. project > > We will have IRC & VOIP communications between the groups, enabling > information sharing, & work on development projects, etc. It's like a > GNU-Linux user group meeting, on a global scale. Or, it's like a whole > earth GNU-Linux user group meeting. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR ===== > > I'm doing this in my "spare" part time, as a volunteer effort for the > GNU(Linux)/BSD community. By education I'm an electrical engineer (with > a bit of computer science). I've been a GNU(Linux) user for about 10 > years, and a member of San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley LUGs for > that long. > > When I decided to work on doing this, about 2 months ago, I decided to > just work slowly, steadily, & build it up a step at a time. > > So far, we've had two successful local meetings here in Berkeley. A > first start up meeting, just to get together & talk & plan. Next month > we worked on getting WiFi going at the meeting so it would be easy to > share an internet connection for everyone. We also got an IRC channel up > which the meeting attendees logged into. > > Now, this month, I've gotten a Google Groups mailing list & web page for > both the local, & global groups. And, I'm now working on sending out > the announcement about this meeting, & finding out which people at other > groups are interested in this. And I'll try to work to help groups like > yours, that have members who are interested in this, get started in > getting connected with this meeting. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 3) WHAT TO DO NEXT ===== > > So, if anyone there is interested based on what I've said so far, there > are several things that could be done: > > 1) Reply to this email, letting me know what part(s) of this you, > personally, are interested in. > 2) As part of that, discuss among your local selves if the individuals > who are interested would like to work to get a local simultaneous > meeting going. > 3) Figure out who at your group would lead that effort, or would work on > arranging it. > 4) Read the Berkeley-TIP-Global website, & join it's mailing list: > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal > > The Global group is open to anyone joining - not just the local group > leaders. In fact, it is _encouraged_ that everyone interested in the > meeting join the list - the input on discussions from everyone > interested will benefit everyone else. > > There is more to know about this event than I can put in this email. > I've put much of that information up on the website, so I encourage you > to scan or read it over. Hopefully that will answer most of the > questions you have. If not, please join that group & post questions, > comments & suggestions for improvement to the mailing list. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2 ===== > ===== FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING? ===== > > If anyone in your group is a bit experienced, or up for some fun, you > might want to pull a meeting together & join with us tomorrow, Saturday > for our first effort to have a multi-site meeting. > > This month, I'm just focusing on getting the word out to USA groups. I > call this month the Global-USA effort. In future months I'll expand it > to working to get groups connected from the Americas, Europe, then Asia. > > It's easy to join in with us - > 1) Just find someplace with at least internet capability for IRC (better > if it could do VOIP, but that's not necessary for the first meeting) - > it could be merely someone's home or apartment, an internet cafe, or a > school or office room. > 2) Post an announcement to your local list that everyone is invited. > 3) Come to your local meeting & get on IRC with us. > 4) Download some videos & watch them simultaneously with all the > participating groups. > 5) Talk about the videos, or whatever, on IRC, or VOIP. > > That's all there is to it. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING ===== > > For this first meeting, tomorrow, Saturday, I've scheduled the following > videos to watch (All times Pacific Daylight Savings Time, adjust for > local time accordingly.): > > TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: > > 1000 AM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Network1: Asterisk VOIP - Sameer Verma > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2148055040572903738 > > http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20070628 > Social: ? > 1130 AM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Network2: Debian - Setup A WiFi Repeater > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKe_jXszFc > Prog Lang: Painless Python Part 1 - Alex Martelli > http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDgD9whDfEY > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2008-June/003629.html > Database: A Googly MySQL Cluster > http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ930zMk96U > 100 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- > GUIs: ? > Distros: git - Linus Torvalds > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737 > 230 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Business: Web 2.0 startups - David Weekly > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2765503550413131030 > > http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20080626 > Education: Python on the OLPC XO Laptop > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPabiIHgmBU > > ===================================================================== > ===== 6) SUMMARY ===== > > Well, that is the basic information. > > Does this sound interesting to you? Please reply to this email & let me > know. > > I look forward to hearing from you. :) > > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
