Thanks for taking a moment to detail the minutes. Those of us who couldn't make the meeting definitely appreciate it (or at least I do).
-- Brett Johnson simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Eric Basile <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually me and FIREHOSE are not from CCV where from Champlain College. > > On another note Hi everyone I'm Basile. > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Josh Sled <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey VAGUErants… >> >> Let me recap the meeting last night, at least as much of it as I >> remember. :) >> >> >> There was rough agreement that the active VAGUE membership would welcome >> more, broader, regular content … so long as it is in the orbit and >> service of VAGUE's core interests: free, open and open-source >> technologies and policies. >> >> There was widespread agreement that re-branding VAGUE is a non-starter. >> People love the VAGUE identity. Hell, *I* love the VAGUE identity; my >> raising of "re-branding" was always more practical than to kill >> "VAGUE". >> >> As such, I just purchased the domain name "vaguevt.org", which will >> become the new web home of VAGUE. After it is roughed in, we'll >> undertake a coordinated "SEO 101" campaign to get some google juice for >> a TBD set of terms and phrases related to vermont, unix, open-source, >> &c. The goal is to make VAGUE readily findable for people coming to or >> in the vermont area and want to be involved with free/open/web >> technologies. In support of that goal, we not only need a nice landing >> page, but also some form of regularly-updated content (over and above >> meeting notices/summaries/&c.), ie. a blog, twitter updates, &c. >> >> (A very welcome contribution would be a design and visual identity for >> VAGUE and the site. A logo, a color scheme, &c … while there's >> certainly a sort of hacker aesthetic to the default media wiki style or >> unadorned html, there's nothing quite like a unique, simple, consistent >> visual design.) >> >> >> Jonathan and Basil from CCV/FIREHOSE were present. FIREHOSE draws >> presentations from the technology-focused subset of the CCV student >> body, in interest-group style, on a weekly basis. There is a very high >> degree of overlap between FIREHOSE' and VAGUE's interests, and I imagine >> we'll have coordinated meetings regularly, moving forward. In fact, if >> I heard correctly, the October meeting will be about Blender (and its UI >> overhaul), hosted at CCV. Details forthcoming. :) >> >> Between that October meeting and Rubin's offer to host and present a >> November meeting, we have some momentum and headway to plan a >> forward-looking calendar of content. >> >> One way to do this is to look to existing companies/organizations that >> do user-group outreach. Also, coordinating with regional users groups >> and staying on top of conference schedules will be important in trying >> to identify and engage presenters as they travel near and through our >> region. This is a very parallelizable task, so I hope some of you can >> step up to track your own areas of interest. This is exactly the place >> where an expanded range of content can help fill the meeting schedule, >> and bring in a wider range of attendees, and help grow the group. >> >> I can see a future where VAGUE is a vibrant hub for Vermonters >> interested in the wide range of free and open technologies. I'm >> encouraged by our recent activity. And I hope those reading this far >> can commit a fraction of their time to helping make that future a >> reality. >> >> -- >> ...jsled >> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >> > > > > -- > -Eric >
