As for the issue tracker-- that's also a good idea. A wiki may also be appropriate. We'll put something up to help keep people informed.
~John
On 2/10/06, David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At the risk of sounding too PC, could we find another word besides
"evangelism"? I personally don't care at all (it's true, after all), but
it rubs certain people the wrong way, because they don't like Christian
evangelicals much at all.
I suggest "advocacy" instead.
If there are any specific funding needs, please send those out when you
figure them out. I'd be happy to donate a few bucks to get more Linux on
campus. Also, let use know about any really specific bits of work, I
wouldn't mind helping out. Maybe you should toss up an issue tracker on
the UMLUG site...
-DMZ
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:43 -0500, John Demme wrote:
> Last night was the discussion meeting on future evangelism. I'd like
> to thank the very few people who showed up despite the cold.
>
> Here's what we've decided to do:
>
> We'll be forming two committees- an Evangelism committee and an
> Education Committee.
>
> The Evangelism committee will be in charge of F/OSS and Linux
> evangelism. The initial committee will be active for this semester,
> all summer, and part of the beginning of the fall 2006 semester. One
> of their first acts will be deciding on one or two CDs to be
> distributing. We want one to be a CD of F/OSS software for Windows
> and another to be a Linux boot CD. The obvious choice for the latter
> is Knoppix, but they'll be evaluating multiple options. If both
> Windows stuff and the Linux boot CD are available on the same CD, so
> be it- easier for us. I'm told (by Anthony) that Ubunutu makes a CD
> like this. It was also suggested that this committee coordinate with
> the University Helpdesk to distribute F/OSS software- putting links to
> applications like Open Office on the applicable Helpdesk pages. It
> would also be desirable to get OIT to distribute our official CD en
> masse to all of the incoming freshmen in the fall. Lastly, I would
> like this committee to, in the early fall (when people are buying
> their books and such), arrange to have some one to be at the campus
> book store whenever they're open to dissuade people from buying
> products like MS Office and instead offer them our F/OSS CD. These
> are just some ideas to start with, and the committee will be
> responsible for generating more ideas and implementing them.
>
> Next is the Education committee. They'll be responsible for educating
> people about F/OSS and Linux. Although this overlaps a bit with the
> Evangelism committee's mission, I feel that it's different enough to
> warrant a separate committee. One of my biggest pet peeves is when
> Professors distribute assignments and necessary material in MS doc
> format, considering that anything slightly past text doesn't work in
> OO half the time. One of the things the education committee would be
> responsible for is educating the entire University faculty/staff (or
> whoever will listen) on topics such as this, and alternatives to using
> the doc format (such as HTML or PDF). A lecture on closed vs open
> standards might be in order.
>
> I am (as of now) looking for people to head each committee and staff
> them. If you're interested, please send me an email telling me such.
>
> We also spent some time generating ideas for meetings. The
> "Evangelism Trifecta" that we used last semester (Revolution OS, then
> Intro to Linux talk the next week, then the Installfest the week
> after) will fall under the domain of the Evangelism Committee and
> we'll probably do it again this semester. We also thought about
> running a series of "howto" tutorials on various topics- Samba intro,
> Linux gaming, Xorg, apache, VPN, AFS, iptables, ect... These meetings
> would probably fall under the domain of the Education Committee. Ajay
> also suggested that we have sort of a "book swap" meeting and/or
> website section. He'd like people to post IT/CS books (on to the
> website) that they have and are willing to loan out. Also a meeting
> where various people talk about what books they've read and would
> suggest (especially if they're on Orielly Safari- free for University
> people) is a possible meeting.
>
> I have also felt that we haven't had as many presentations at a more
> abstract and complex level as of late. I'd like to have more
> presentations like Rob's security research talk last semester. For
> instance, I'd love to have a talk about how the Linux kernel is
> structured and how it works. (Is there anyone here qualified to give
> that talk?) Linux as an RTOS and an example of a Linux embedded
> device might also be a cool talk. (Anybody for that one?)
>
> I'll be scheduling the next meeting soon with Peter as he'll be giving
> a talk on the Campus VPN, and I'll probably add on to his talk with
> something on OpenVPN, since it's applicable and I just finished doing
> an OpenVPN roll-out.
>
> That's all for now- don't forget to let me know if you're interested
> in heading or staffing a committee. I apologize for using the term
> "committee" so many times. I cringed every time I typed it.
>
> ~John Demme
> UMLUG President
