David often has trouble rounding up speakers for the PLUG general meeting. If he does not have a speaker for January 5th, I propose a "xkcd1k eve" meeting.
http://xkcd.com is the best webcomic in the universe, and has been mentioned on the list many times. Many of the strips are about open source topics. xkcd releases on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. Today (Mon Dec 19) was xkcd #992, discussed on the plug-talk list. Assuming author Randal Munroe keeps to the usual schedule, releasing the day's strip just after midnight Eastern time, that means it shows up here about 9pm the day before. If I've done my math right, that means that strip #1000, xkcd1k, shows up around 9PM Thursday January 5, 2012, while we are at afters at the Lucky Lab Northwest. So, I propose we connect a web browser to the PSU projector, and attendees suggest the numbers of their favorite xkcd cartoons for display on the Big Screen. We can explain or discuss or ridicule them as needs be. I can bring some big pads of paper, some black markers, and a flip-chart easel, and we can draw our own xkcd cartoons, at the meeting or at afters. If somebody is /really/ obsessive, they can set up some web connections with other west coast user groups, and we can swap our cartoons and comments back and forth. In the long run, that might lead to other over-the-web presentations, and we could recruit speakers from other cities. If this makes sense, we can announce on Caligator, on the xkcd forums, and spread the word, and see who shows up. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
