I'd certainly try to make it when I'm in town. We might also consider hosting a seminar series, perhaps only one per year or semester initially. It would be great to bring in someone like Bruce Parens.
Tim PS. I switched nascent UTLUG email list to a biosci-linux list; any interested biosci folks can subscribe at http://www.keittlab.org/mailman/ T. On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:54, Patrick Lang wrote: > I think the best solution is to get a monthly meeting together, and > make every other one an installfest. I understand there are regular > ACM meetings, but I don't think those are generally inviting or useful > to people outside of CS. It would be good for new users to have that > group to talk to consistently. I don't know how many times I gave my > emails out to people at installfests and never heard back from them > directly or through the list. Personally I've converted more people to > Linux and Mac OSX at the IEEE ComSoc weekly meetings since we're always > there to help them in person along the way. > > Patrick > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > > > Sorry, my wording wasn't very careful. My intention is not necessarily > > to create a separate group, but perhaps to broaden the scope and > > audience of current efforts. My impression was that siglinux is a > > student organization -- which is great -- I just thought a more general > > name / organizational structure might bring in more people across > > campus. A special interest group of the (T)ACM may not sound as > > appealing as a general LUG to say someone coming from biology who > > doesn't know anything about ACM (like me). However, I don't want to > > change things unless there is a general interest in doing so. Much of > > my > > motivation stems from the dismal level of support for Linux in the > > school of biological sciences (nada). Perhaps I should try to organize > > biosci Linux users to join with siglinux, although at the moment it may > > be just me... > > > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 03:08, Victor Pelt wrote: > >> while more linux is never a bad thing, is there enough intrest in > >> having > >> several linux groups? (how many people do you have interest in > >> joining utlug > >> that arn't in siglinux) > >> > >> victor > >> > >> Quoting "Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>> I setup a UTLUG email list at > >>> > >>> http://www.keittlab.org/mailman/listinfo/utlug > >>> > >>> There is no UT Linux Users Group on campus at the moment. The list is > >>> for anyone who is interested in starting one. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Tim > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Timothy H. Keitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> University of Texas at Austin > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Siglinux mailing list > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Visit our website at <http://www.ctlug.org>. > > -- > > Timothy H. Keitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > University of Texas at Austin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Siglinux mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website at <http://www.ctlug.org>. -- Timothy H. Keitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Texas at Austin _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
