Hello, Some of you may remember me, Travis Beatty. I was one of the younger members of the club, and have been unable to attend as of late. The reason I haven't been attending was that I became the President of the Marist College Computer Society, and we meet Wednesday nights.
We have a large member base (at least as far as I can tell from our first two meetings), predominantly freshman and sophomore, with a few juniors and seniors. This is a plea for help. I'm looking for both speakers (both private and company-sponsored) for our Wednesday meetings, and a sponsoring company for our "Hack-a-thon." For the meetings, we are looking for a 45-60 (over and under is fine -- I'm just happy for speakers!) minute talk. We meet at 915PM, and try to start by 925PM (After our lightning talks that I shamelessly borrowed from MHVLUG). Any talk on anything dealing with software development, hardware, networking, software, OSes, security, etc would be appreciated. The talks can be at an intermediate-advanced level, or even an introductory talk to a particular technology or field. The Hackathon date is currently being moved from its current date to a weekend in November (the 16th-18th). The date has not been confirmed, so this is tentative. We would be looking for a sponsor to: Create a problem to be solved, and announce it to our members (The Friday Night at 930PM) Judge along with faculty (The Sunday around 4) Free goodies like stickers would be a plus :-) We are not seeking monetary sponsorship, only a great employee to make our Hackathon an awesome time! The problem can be at a pretty advanced level. The executive board and myself will be creating a 'Freshman Problem' for newer developers, so there's no concern about scaling the problem -- we'll take care of our newer members. Thank you all for your consideration, and I hope the LUG has been doing great. Travis Beatty President Marist College Computer Society 845-309-9908 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel
