Re: Board meeting July 31st?
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have the board get together for a meeting. Thursday July 31st is the fifth Thursday of the month. How would that work for everyone? Works for me. Ben and Bill may also have updates. I should. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
Re: Board meeting July 31st - location
Ben Scott wrote: The main brand of the Manchester PL is open that evening (West Branch is closed). The Winchell Room (seats 25 w/ tables) is showing as available. (Hunt Room is not.) Excellent suggestion. Who could make a meeting, 6 PM to 8 PM? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
Re: Board meeting July 31st - location
Excellent suggestion. Who could make a meeting, 6 PM to 8 PM? That should be doable for me. -Shawn ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
Re: Board meeting July 31st - location
Ben Scott wrote: The main brand of the Manchester PL is open that evening (West Branch is closed). The Winchell Room (seats 25 w/ tables) is showing as available. (Hunt Room is not.) Reserved, in case we can actually get a quorum. Directions are here: http://216.204.202.157/website/library/VisitUs/Directions/tabid/778/Default.aspx -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
Re: Board meeting July 31st?
On Jul 10, 2008, at 19:52, Arc Riley wrote: I'm not a board member, but this seems like a more prudent agenda item. Not saying I wouldn't like to see the Ubuntu SIG discussed, but I can see the fear of there being a rush to form new SIGs be a barrier for it. A brief history of PySIG (with much paraphrasing): Lloyd asked me if we ought to do python discussions on the DLSLUG list. He had started a Meetup already. I said, hey, why don't we do a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and maybe start a Python SIG. After we had that running for a few weeks I announced it to GNHLUG- discuss. Bill Sconce joined and said, howdy. A few months later Bill said, I think we should meetspace. And more than three years later PySIG is a vibrant SIG of GNHLUG. I believe the Ruby SIG is doing similarly well, though I haven't made it to that timezone yet. So, which problem are we solving by imposing a regulatory structure on SIG's? Empirically the organic model has proven to be successful. So, let's fix that? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
Re: Board meeting July 31st?
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two agenda items come to mind right away: I can update folks on my initial meeting with the Franklin Pierce Law Center intern helping us with 501(c)(3) status. We can discuss the proposed Ubuntu SIGs. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a member of the leadership of the group (as it were) I would support using this occasion to formulate the necessary procedures to create SIGs. I'm not a board member, but this seems like a more prudent agenda item. Not saying I wouldn't like to see the Ubuntu SIG discussed, but I can see the fear of there being a rush to form new SIGs be a barrier for it. Obviously (in my mind) one of the requirements would be people willing to commit the time and energy towards getting it started, perhaps 3 SIG/Chapter Officers at minimum using what I've seen from the PySIG leadership (seems to be 3-4 people doing most of the work). Formalized, this would pre-filter requests that don't have sufficient member support to be workable as a group. This turns it into primarily bottom-up organizing, what are people interested in doing, rather than top-down what we think would be a good idea to form. Also, SIGs/Chapters could be started as independent groups who then request to become part of GNHLUG after they've successfully formed, have 3 officers already active, and have had a few successful meetings. ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
Re: Board meeting July 31st?
Well unfortunately I am entering into my travel period again, and having a time when I could meet physically with y'all is tough. On the 31st I will be in Spain, which makes it particularly bad, since any time that you could get together (i.e. the evening) would be wee hours for me. I do suggest, however, that you change the topic of discussion from Ubuntu SIG to SIG in general and formulate guidelines for any SIG that might want to join, what it means for them and what they have to do to meet the bar as a SIG. In DECUS they had to have enough prospective members to have an set of officers (President, VP, Sec. and Treasurer) which meant that there was some set of people that the main DECUS group could contact. They also had to have a charter (telling what they were about) and a formed set of simple by-laws that allowed the officers to be elected (which typically came down to us re-electing the same ones each year...but there was a way to get rid of dead meat). What DECUS gave them was a contact list of new DECUS members so they could grow their group, and a 501c3 shield (granted, we do not have that, but we could get it). In the case of the Ubuntu SIG, we could look at a co-SIG, but I think it would be better if we just offered GNHLUG Ubuntu SIG membership to the Ubuntu Co-lo members. Therefore GNHLUG Ubuntu SIG membership would not be tied to the Ubuntu Colo group and vice-versa. If we do this once, we can then apply it to any SIGs that want to join. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
