From tmarble at automatiks.com Thu May 1 07:18:19 2008 From: tmarble at automatiks.com (Tom Marble) Date: Thu May 1 07:17:42 2008 Subject: [jobs] looking for DD w/dak,reprepo experience Message-ID: <4819D12B.4010903@automatiks.com> All: Please excuse this recruiting message. A DD recommended this list as I am searching for Debian expertise in the Bay Area. If you or anyone you know may be interested in one of these openings: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddts6cgv_17qcf7mzcb Please contact me off-list. I'll be in town 5/4 - 5/8. Thanks, --Tom From afife at untangle.com Wed May 14 23:03:27 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Wed May 14 23:03:23 2008 Subject: BALUG Dinner: WiFi Mesh Networking (Tuesday) Message-ID: <016a01c8b651$5b713090$4101a8c0@afmeatloaf> Howdy Folks: Balug on Tuesday will host a new speaker, Thomas Belote. Tom will be talking about wireless mesh networking. As a grad student at San Jose State, Thomas has worked on Wireless Mesh Networking and Mobile Ad Hoc Networking. His talk will compare solutions like OLSR and Microsoft's semi open source Mesh Connectivity Layer (that doesn't run on Linux). He will discuss why WDS is not sufficient and a mesh protocol is needed, and discuss the lack of openness thus far in 802.11s even though it is included in the OLPC, as well as security issues and implications. If you'd like to come, please RSVP: RSVP@balug.org Meeting Details... 6:30pm April 20th, 2008 (Tuesday) Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy $5 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ Cost = $13 for dinner, but the meeting itself is free Upcoming 2008 speakers include: June - Andrew Morton (Linux Kernel) July - Mike Linksyaver (Creative Commons) Aug - TBD Sept - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun) Signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org About BALUG: ------------ BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers. We meet in the bar of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm. At 7pm, we share a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker. BALUG Mailing list Policy: -------------------------- BALUG promises not to abuse other LUGs mailing lists. Our current policy is to make one monthly announcement on other Bay Area LUGs mailing lists. If you feel this is not appropriate for a particular list, please tell us which list and what you feel would be a more appropriate policy for that list. Please send feedback to balug-contact@balug.org. -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://madhack.com/pipermail/bad/attachments/20080514/dad2525c/attachment.htm From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Sat May 17 20:28:16 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat May 17 20:28:25 2008 Subject: Debian booth at LinuxWorld[1]? Message-ID: <1211081296.482fa250e7ef6@webmail.rawbw.com> Has Debian managed to line up a booth at LinuxWorld[1]? If so, perhaps we want to start some more planning? (e.g. wiki[2] page, as was done before, etc.) If not, perhaps it's still possible to line up a booth for Debian? Even if not, there may be other ways for Debian to exhibit and/or be represented (e.g. there may be a shared LUG booth[3] - Bay Area Debian (BAD)[4] could probably have at least some representation there, perhaps we also have Deb Day[5]?) references: 1. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ 2. http://wiki.debian.org/LWCESF 3. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q2/004354.html 4. http://bad.debian.net/ 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na/2008/01/msg00006.html From don at donarmstrong.com Sun May 18 11:10:48 2008 From: don at donarmstrong.com (Don Armstrong) Date: Sun May 18 11:11:04 2008 Subject: Debian booth at LinuxWorld[1]? In-Reply-To: <1211081296.482fa250e7ef6@webmail.rawbw.com> References: <1211081296.482fa250e7ef6@webmail.rawbw.com> Message-ID: <20080518181048.GI15311@volo.donarmstrong.com> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Michael Paoli wrote: > Has Debian managed to line up a booth at LinuxWorld[1]? I personally haven't done so, since I will be at debconf and debcamp; if someone wants to organize it and run with it, please do so. Don Armstrong -- Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will be fleeing to SLACKWARE. And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? -- Matt Zimmerman in http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu May 22 12:54:09 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu May 22 12:54:33 2008 Subject: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld In-Reply-To: <015101c8bb88$cb6b4390$3568030a@afmeatloaf> References: <015101c8bb88$cb6b4390$3568030a@afmeatloaf> Message-ID: <1211486049.4835cf6198e3f@webmail.rawbw.com> [Caution: multiple lists on To:/Cc: lines] How about a combined shared LUGs booth/table? Many LUGs may not have enough resource to staff a booth/table for the whole event by themselves, but many/most can cover at least some hours, and likely also provide some materials (e.g. flyers/handouts). This worked fairly well last year. Would someone (perhaps from SF-LUG?) want to take lead on obtaining/coordinating such a booth? Also, looks like Debian may not have a booth this year (LinuxWorld conflicts with Deb Camp - so most of the otherwise available DDs will be at Deb Camp and not LinuxWorld) ... but BAD would likely also be interested in some BAD/Debian representation at LinuxWorld too. references/excerpts: http://www.balug.org/ http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/000553.html http://bad.debian.net/ http://bad.debian.net/list/2008-May/003254.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na/2008/05/msg00000.html http://www.sf-lug.org/ Quoting Andrew Fife : > Does BALUG booth at LinuxWorld in the .org pavillion? If so we need to > act quickly by 5/26. > > Maybe something in conjunction with SF-LUG, SVLUG, CABAL & PenLUG? > > -- > Andrew Fife > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway > www.untangle.com/download > > 650.425.3327 desk > 415.806.6028 cell > > > > _____ > > From: alison_dwelley@idg.com [mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM > To: afife@untangle.com > Subject: Fw: Your Invitation to LinuxWorld 's .Org Pavilion - deadline May > 26th > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I am following up with the projects who have been invited to participate > in the .org Pavilion at LinuxWorld this year. The deadline for responses > is Monday, May 26th. At that time we will need to offer your place to > another project. Please let me know if the Bay Area Linux Users Group is > interested in participating at LinuxWorld in August. > > I have attached a contract below. Please return a signed copy if you will > be able to attend and I will assign a booth to you. > > Regards, > Alison > > > ----- Forwarded by Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC on 05/21/2008 05:11 PM > ----- > > Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC > > > 05/05/2008 04:07 PM > > > To > afife@untangle.com > > cc > > Subject > Your Invitation to LinuxWorld's .Org Pavilion > > > > > > Dear Andrew, > > It is my pleasure to inform you that Bay Area Linux Users Group has been > chosen for this year's .org Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo > being held in San Francisco August 5-7, 2008. I hope that you will be able > to participate. Projects accepting our offer of free exhibit space in the > pavilion must be willing to assist us in promoting LinuxWorld with a > banner ad on their home page. Please RSVP by May 26, 2008 via email to > alison_dwelley@idg.com. If you are not able to participate in the event > this year, please let me know so that we can make arrangements for another > organization to take that place. > > The .org Pavilion is an exciting opportunity for .orgs to reach out to the > free software and open source communities during LinuxWorld Conference & > Expo. We are happy to provide this opportunity for you to be recognized > for all of your hard work in support of these communities. > > We are very excited to have you be a part of our 2008 .org Pavilion and > look forward to seeing you at the San Francisco LinuxWorld event. We will > send you additional information about the show as soon as we receive a > faxed or emailed copy of the attached contract, your project description > for the website and show guide, and specs for the banner ad to fax # > 508-370-4325. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact > me at 508-424-4834 or via email at Alison_dwelley@idg.com. > > Kind Regards, > > Alison Dwelley > > Please consider the environment before printing this email > > > Alison Dwelley > Sales Operations Coordinator > IDG World Expo > 3 Speen St. Suite 320 > Framingham, MA 01701 > P. 508.424.4834 > F. 508.620.6690 > E. alison_dwelley@idg.com > > > From afife at untangle.com Thu May 22 13:45:04 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Thu May 22 13:45:10 2008 Subject: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld In-Reply-To: <1211486049.4835cf6198e3f@webmail.rawbw.com> References: <015101c8bb88$cb6b4390$3568030a@afmeatloaf> <1211486049.4835cf6198e3f@webmail.rawbw.com> Message-ID: <00e001c8bc4c$ab36c990$4101a8c0@afmeatloaf> To clarify, BALUG already has a booth. We just need to confirm that we want it and coordinate with other LUGs if a folks want a joint booth. -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -----Original Message----- From: Michael Paoli [mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:54 PM To: balug-admin@lists.balug.org; sf-lug@linuxmafia.com Cc: debian-events-na@lists.debian.org; bad@bad.debian.net; Jim Stockford; Andrew Fife Subject: Re: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld [Caution: multiple lists on To:/Cc: lines] How about a combined shared LUGs booth/table? Many LUGs may not have enough resource to staff a booth/table for the whole event by themselves, but many/most can cover at least some hours, and likely also provide some materials (e.g. flyers/handouts). This worked fairly well last year. Would someone (perhaps from SF-LUG?) want to take lead on obtaining/coordinating such a booth? Also, looks like Debian may not have a booth this year (LinuxWorld conflicts with Deb Camp - so most of the otherwise available DDs will be at Deb Camp and not LinuxWorld) ... but BAD would likely also be interested in some BAD/Debian representation at LinuxWorld too. references/excerpts: http://www.balug.org/ http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/000553.htm l http://bad.debian.net/ http://bad.debian.net/list/2008-May/003254.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na/2008/05/msg00000.html http://www.sf-lug.org/ Quoting Andrew Fife : > Does BALUG booth at LinuxWorld in the .org pavillion? If so we need > to act quickly by 5/26. > > Maybe something in conjunction with SF-LUG, SVLUG, CABAL & PenLUG? > > -- > Andrew Fife > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download > > 650.425.3327 desk > 415.806.6028 cell > > > > _____ > > From: alison_dwelley@idg.com [mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM > To: afife@untangle.com > Subject: Fw: Your Invitation to LinuxWorld 's .Org Pavilion - deadline > May 26th > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I am following up with the projects who have been invited to > participate in the .org Pavilion at LinuxWorld this year. The deadline > for responses is Monday, May 26th. At that time we will need to offer > your place to another project. Please let me know if the Bay Area > Linux Users Group is interested in participating at LinuxWorld in August. > > I have attached a contract below. Please return a signed copy if you > will be able to attend and I will assign a booth to you. > > Regards, > Alison > > > ----- Forwarded by Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC on 05/21/2008 05:11 > PM > ----- > > Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC > > > 05/05/2008 04:07 PM > > > To > afife@untangle.com > > cc > > Subject > Your Invitation to LinuxWorld's .Org Pavilion > > > > > > Dear Andrew, > > It is my pleasure to inform you that Bay Area Linux Users Group has > been chosen for this year's .org Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference > & Expo being held in San Francisco August 5-7, 2008. I hope that you > will be able to participate. Projects accepting our offer of free > exhibit space in the pavilion must be willing to assist us in > promoting LinuxWorld with a banner ad on their home page. Please RSVP > by May 26, 2008 via email to alison_dwelley@idg.com. If you are not > able to participate in the event this year, please let me know so that > we can make arrangements for another organization to take that place. > > The .org Pavilion is an exciting opportunity for .orgs to reach out to > the free software and open source communities during LinuxWorld > Conference & Expo. We are happy to provide this opportunity for you to > be recognized for all of your hard work in support of these communities. > > We are very excited to have you be a part of our 2008 .org Pavilion > and look forward to seeing you at the San Francisco LinuxWorld event. > We will send you additional information about the show as soon as we > receive a faxed or emailed copy of the attached contract, your project > description for the website and show guide, and specs for the banner > ad to fax # 508-370-4325. If you have any questions please do not > hesitate to contact me at 508-424-4834 or via email at Alison_dwelley@idg.com. > > Kind Regards, > > Alison Dwelley > > Please consider the environment before printing this email > > > Alison Dwelley > Sales Operations Coordinator > IDG World Expo > 3 Speen St. Suite 320 > Framingham, MA 01701 > P. 508.424.4834 > F. 508.620.6690 > E. alison_dwelley@idg.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://madhack.com/pipermail/bad/attachments/20080522/f35f93ce/attachment.htm From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Fri May 23 12:38:45 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri May 23 12:38:51 2008 Subject: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld In-Reply-To: <00e001c8bc4c$ab36c990$4101a8c0@afmeatloaf> References: <015101c8bb88$cb6b4390$3568030a@afmeatloaf> <1211486049.4835cf6198e3f@webmail.rawbw.com> <00e001c8bc4c$ab36c990$4101a8c0@afmeatloaf> Message-ID: <1211571525.48371d4583205@webmail.rawbw.com> Sure, ... BALUG can certainly use it, and we can also coordiante with / invite some other Bay Area LUGs that don't have their own booth space. Quoting Andrew Fife : > To clarify, BALUG already has a booth. We just need to confirm that we > want it and coordinate with other LUGs if a folks want a joint booth. > > > -- > Andrew Fife > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway > www.untangle.com/download > > 650.425.3327 desk > 415.806.6028 cell > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Paoli [mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu] > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:54 PM > To: balug-admin@lists.balug.org; sf-lug@linuxmafia.com > Cc: debian-events-na@lists.debian.org; bad@bad.debian.net; Jim Stockford; > Andrew Fife > Subject: Re: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld > > [Caution: multiple lists on To:/Cc: lines] > > How about a combined shared LUGs booth/table? > > Many LUGs may not have enough resource to staff a booth/table for the > whole event by themselves, but many/most can cover at least some hours, > and likely also provide some materials (e.g. flyers/handouts). > > This worked fairly well last year. Would someone (perhaps from SF-LUG?) > want to take lead on obtaining/coordinating such a booth? > > Also, looks like Debian may not have a booth this year (LinuxWorld > conflicts with Deb Camp - so most of the otherwise available DDs will be > at Deb Camp and not LinuxWorld) ... but BAD would likely also be > interested in some BAD/Debian representation at LinuxWorld too. > > references/excerpts: > http://www.balug.org/ > http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/000553.htm > l > http://bad.debian.net/ > http://bad.debian.net/list/2008-May/003254.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na/2008/05/msg00000.html > http://www.sf-lug.org/ > > Quoting Andrew Fife : > > > Does BALUG booth at LinuxWorld in the .org pavillion? If so we need > > to act quickly by 5/26. > > > > Maybe something in conjunction with SF-LUG, SVLUG, CABAL & PenLUG? > > > > -- > > Andrew Fife > > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download > > > > 650.425.3327 desk > > 415.806.6028 cell > > > > > > > > _____ > > > > From: alison_dwelley@idg.com [mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM > > To: afife@untangle.com > > Subject: Fw: Your Invitation to LinuxWorld 's .Org Pavilion - deadline > > May 26th > > > > > > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I am following up with the projects who have been invited to > > participate in the .org Pavilion at LinuxWorld this year. The deadline > > for responses is Monday, May 26th. At that time we will need to offer > > your place to another project. Please let me know if the Bay Area > > Linux Users Group is interested in participating at LinuxWorld in > August. > > > > I have attached a contract below. Please return a signed copy if you > > will be able to attend and I will assign a booth to you. > > > > Regards, > > Alison > > > > > > ----- Forwarded by Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC on 05/21/2008 05:11 > > PM > > ----- > > > > Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC > > > > > > 05/05/2008 04:07 PM > > > > > > To > > afife@untangle.com > > > > cc > > > > Subject > > Your Invitation to LinuxWorld's .Org Pavilion > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Andrew, > > > > It is my pleasure to inform you that Bay Area Linux Users Group has > > been chosen for this year's .org Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference > > & Expo being held in San Francisco August 5-7, 2008. I hope that you > > will be able to participate. Projects accepting our offer of free > > exhibit space in the pavilion must be willing to assist us in > > promoting LinuxWorld with a banner ad on their home page. Please RSVP > > by May 26, 2008 via email to alison_dwelley@idg.com. If you are not > > able to participate in the event this year, please let me know so that > > we can make arrangements for another organization to take that place. > > > > The .org Pavilion is an exciting opportunity for .orgs to reach out to > > the free software and open source communities during LinuxWorld > > Conference & Expo. We are happy to provide this opportunity for you to > > be recognized for all of your hard work in support of these communities. > > > > We are very excited to have you be a part of our 2008 .org Pavilion > > and look forward to seeing you at the San Francisco LinuxWorld event. > > We will send you additional information about the show as soon as we > > receive a faxed or emailed copy of the attached contract, your project > > description for the website and show guide, and specs for the banner > > ad to fax # 508-370-4325. If you have any questions please do not > > hesitate to contact me at 508-424-4834 or via email at > Alison_dwelley@idg.com. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Alison Dwelley > > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email > > > > > > Alison Dwelley > > Sales Operations Coordinator > > IDG World Expo > > 3 Speen St. Suite 320 > > Framingham, MA 01701 > > P. 508.424.4834 > > F. 508.620.6690 > > E. alison_dwelley@idg.com From afife at untangle.com Fri May 23 13:22:57 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Fri May 23 13:22:53 2008 Subject: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld In-Reply-To: <1211571525.48371d4583205@webmail.rawbw.com> References: <015101c8bb88$cb6b4390$3568030a@afmeatloaf> <1211486049.4835cf6198e3f@webmail.rawbw.com> <00e001c8bc4c$ab36c990$4101a8c0@afmeatloaf> <1211571525.48371d4583205@webmail.rawbw.com> Message-ID: <00d801c8bd12$bfdd9510$3568030a@afmeatloaf> Michael Paoli wrote: >Sure, ... BALUG can certainly use it, and we can also coordiante with / invite some >other Bay Area LUGs that don't have their own booth space. Okay, but just to be clear, I have way too much going on at Linuxworld already... So other than maybe sponsoring the fortune cookie again, I can't offer any help. -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://madhack.com/pipermail/bad/attachments/20080523/76915410/attachment.htm From john_re at fastmail.us Fri May 30 03:19:51 2008 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Fri May 30 03:20:05 2008 Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT- BAD MEETING Sat June 7 Berkeley, & call4 Speakers Message-ID: <1212142791.13918.1255854061@webmail.messagingengine.com> ===== WHAT In the spirit of the Shotgun rules, I'M VIOLATING RULE # 1 (oh, and some others too, probably), since there hasn't been an official shotgunned BAD meeting since last Dec, and I'm calling a BAD meeting for Sat June 7, 12N-6PM. ===== WHERE WE WILL MEET in Berkeley, California, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way, [Exact location ToBeDetermined, (in Berkeley, not the galaxy, etc.). I'm trying to arrange it on the UCBerkeley campus or nearby, I'll do a follow up post to this BAD list when location is finalized]. DIRECTIONS (Tentative): CAR: 80 Freeway to Berkeley, University Ave. exit, up University to UCB. BART: Berkeley Downtown exit. BIKE: Bike to UCB. FLYING CAR: If you've got a flying car, & you can't figure out how to get to UCB, you have got big problems. ===== The BSD/GNULinux INSTALLFEST TALKS POTLUCK (ITP) This BAD meeting will be co-incident with the FIRST meeting of the BSD/GNULinux Installfest Talks Potluck event (ITP) that I am organizing. I've included the basic ITP description info below in this message, and here is a link: Berkeley Installfest, Talks, Potluck- 1) Structure http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-May/003035.html Basically, the ITP will hopefully be a monthly recurring event, on the first Saturday of the month, about 6+ hours long, and will have 3 parallel events: 1) Installfest 2) Talks 3) Putluck I'm organizing the ITP through the buug.org mailing list. http://buug.org/ ===== PLEASE RSVP % (Thank you.) The RSVP % is a probability of attendance RSVP. I strongly encourage you to JOIN THE BUUG.ORG MAILING LIST, http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug and then SEND AN RSVP % message TO THE BUUG LIST (ThankYou). Doing that will greatly help all ITP attendees get an idea how attendance for that event is progressing. It would be informative if you include in your RSVP% that you are coming for BAD, or because you heard about the ITP on BAD. Berk InstFest Talks Potluck- 2) Please RSVP % http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-May/003036.html 080607 RSVP=100% - That's all there is to doing the RSVP, folks. http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-May/003041.html ============================= ===== CALL FOR SPEAKERS ===== For the Talks part of the ITP, (and the BAD meeting for that matter) I hereby make a call for speakers. I'm especially interested in having someone give a talk on HOW UBUNTU 08.04 DIFFERS FROM DEBIAN. This talk would be, at your choosing, anywhere from 15min to 1 hr. It could be a panel talk - & speakers could talk about what they know best. I'd especially like to hear what from Debian Ubuntu modifies. IIRC there was something about Python scripts, using python to controll something, etc. Also, if you would like to give a talk on anything else BSD/GNULinux FOSS, Debian or otherwise, please email us on the buug.org list with your suggestions. I/we are open to anything attendees at ITP might be interested in. THE WAY TALKS WILL WORK: BEFORE THE MEETING: ATTENDEES will message the list with talk subjects they'd like to hear. POTENTIAL SPEAKERS will message the list with talk subjects they are willing to give. AT THE MEETING: There will be a timeslot sign up sheet, and anyone who can get one or more attendees to be an audience member for their talk can sign up for a time slot. At the time slot, attendees are free to attend the talks. Ie, it's very open & free form. Ultimately, I'd hope the ITP would have from 4-8 talks, of lengths from 15m to 1 hr. Please monitor the buug list for SPEAKERS/TALKS to monitor how progress is going. Since this is only one week's advance notice, I'm not expecting the talk should be super fine & polished. This is just for a small, informal group of people, so if you _are_ about to talk about all _or part_ of the Debian/Ubuntu subject matter, please let us know. Point - we'll be very happy to have a rough edged talk that contains important information, & the talk doesn't have to be fine polished. So please volunteer to talk if you can. Thank you. ===== THANKS, & HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE That's the end of my BAD meeting call. Below is some reference material & links, so all the basic info is included in this one email message. Thanks. I hope to see you there. ===================================================================== ===== From: Berkeley Installfest, Talks, Potluck- 1) Structure http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-May/003035.html The plan would be to hold a get together each month on the first Saturday (or maybe Sunday?), perhaps 12N-6PM. In Berkeley. It should be a fun & educational & productive & social event. It would have 3 parts that run in parallel time: 1) Installfest - new & experienced users welcome. 2) Talks (perhaps four to six talks of 15min to 1hr each about Distros, Kernel, Hardware, ApplicationSW, Programming, etc) 3) PotLuck - bring some food, maybe barbecue, talk about whatever. Maybe we could video stream the talks to other groups around the world who could hold similar events in their locality. For the 1st meeting (tentatively June 7 Sat) some talk possibilities are: 1) Difference between Ubuntu8.4 & Debian 2) OLPC - Sugar OS project 3) Google Summer of Code - how you can help 4) PGP & personal keysigning 5) Mozilla 3 - the beta's features & how to help - the "show me the code" session? 6) Python08 conference highlights 7) LinuxPicnic (in SiValley) preparations/planning/how to help =====From: Berk InstFest Talks Potluck- 2) Please RSVP % http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-May/003036.html If you think you at least _might_ come to the BITP, please reply to this message stating your best current estimate of the probability you'd attend on Saturday Jun 7, using probability of 25 50 75 or 100 %, & PUT your % # IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE MESSAGE. (Thankyou) (Equation between probability % and english language concepts: 25 = small possibility 50 = maybe 75 = more likely than not 100 = definitely ) This will help us as a guide to determining event planning. -- john_re@fastmail.us -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different From john_re at fastmail.us Fri May 30 04:18:13 2008 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Fri May 30 04:18:27 2008 Subject: Would please update BAD webpage with meeting June 7. Thankyou Message-ID: <1212146294.24920.1255862661@webmail.messagingengine.com> Would someone please update BAD webpage with meeting. Thankyou. It didn't even have the December 2007 on it. Who is the BAD webmaster? (just for reference, not to imply lack of inattention to a not very active group. :) thanks.) -- john_re@fastmail.us -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service