Just a reminder that PhreakNIC is November 4th! We hope to see a NLUG presence there.A Partial speaker list will be released tonight but you can see it a little early here http://archive.phreaknic.info/pn20beta/sessions.html
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just got back from Atlanta a couple of hours ago, but I will be at the > meeting tonight. > > Tonight's topic, alas, will be open forum (they can't all be like last > month, though I'm working to make that the norm, not the exception). Plan > on doing pizza early tonight unless we have some last-second demos or talks. > > Bruce, any chance on a demo of your CHIP computers? > > Business to cover: > > 1) The next meeting is currently scheduled for Nov 8th, ie - election day. > * - Do we want to have the meeting as scheduled? If so, I need someone > to sub for me, as I'll be working at my district's polling station. > * - Do we want to reschedule the meeting? If so, when? > * - Do we want to skip the November meeting and focus on setting up > something big for December's meeting, publicizing, recruiting new > attendees, etc.? > > 2) Installfest: Obviously, ITT is no longer an option; they went out of > business & closed nationally just before last month's meeting, for those > who missed the news. Due to my extensive traveling over the last ~30 days I > haven't been able to lock down a replacement site. I'd like 30 days minimum > to promote it once a date is set & even if we had a space confirmed this > weekend, we'll be into the holiday season mayhem by this time next month. > Add in the current uncertainty about the Nov meeting mentioned above, and I > propose we set a tentative date of January 21st, 2017, location TBD. That > gives us time to plan, advertise, seek a sponsor or three, etc. > > 3) The NLUG mailing list has 395 members. It looks like ~50 of those > addresses have been bouncing for a while. I'd like to nuke them & put > together a list of valid addresses & members. I'd then like to encourage > members to introduce themselves on the list, talk about their skills & > experiences wrt Linux/FOSS, and what they'd like to see from NLUG going > forward, both at meetings and other possible events. We have a large talent > pool with a long history in Middle Tennessee (and beyond); I think we can > do more with what we've got than we have been up to now. > > 4) Out Meetup group ( https://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Linux-Users-Group/ > ) currently has 432 members. It looks like more than half of the them > aren't on NLUG list. We seem to have two fragmented communities at the > moment. Thoughts on unifying them? > > 5) Regaining our non-profit status, and the benefits that come from it: > Looks like it'll run ~$750. Alternatives are to start over as a new > non-profit, which would be cheaper, but we'd lose the "NLUG" name. > > 6) Promotion & advertising: We have facebook and twitter accounts. We also > have github and linked-in accounts (via Adrew - note to self: get details). > We should use them. > > 7) "New website" - Andrew was handling this, but he should probably hand > it off to one of us so we can get it up and running, rather than having > NLUG.org redirect to our Meetup.com page (which will need to be renewed for > an additional three months next month, IIRC; Andrew has details on that as > well). > > 8) In the spring & especially over the summer I was doing an increasing > amount of NLUG-related work for Andrew. I'll probably be sticking close to > home 'til the end of the year, but I could definitely use a backup > ("Assistant VP"?). This would need to be someone we can trust with logins & > passwords. > > Discuss. > > ~~Dru > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
