Wed. Jan. 9: BAD social get-together, Berkeley

[Rick Moen]

I note the post by tluxt (tluxt@yahoo.com), and offer these comments:

- It cover a rather diverse list of topics.
- It asks for further discussion, to ratify (among other things) a 
  proposal for a meeting in six days' time.
- Increasing, by the way, the number of meeting proposals to three.
- It doesn't offer a meeting as a complete package (details worked
  out and presented).
- It introduces further complication to an already muddled discussion.
- It hinges on volunteer participation by people who haven't offered
  (Ben Pfaff, other unnamed speakers).

I hope that doesn't come across as harsh:  It's just that I have a
theory that things happen in volunteer groups when make life simple
and enjoyable for _those who do the work_.

> After that time, a vote could be taken to see if attendees would
> prefer something else.

Flashback #1:  I was at a Wednesday-evening San Francisco PC Lusers
Group meeting, quite a few years ago.  Group president Tom McLoughlin
asked for a show of hands of _how many people liked Wednesday evenings_.
I said:  "Um, Tom?  There's a teeny statistical flaw, there."

Flashback #2:  Around that time, I edited the Luser Group's ~40-page
monthly newsletter.  McLoughlin decided I needed random dumb-ass
meddling in my editorial process, so he appointed a magazine
"committee".  To make lemonade from those lemons, I promptly assigned
them real work.  One objected to our fixing authors' grammar; McLoughlin
suggested "democracy" required that I let the committee vote on it.  I
pointed to volunteer Harry Liu:  "See him?  He just proofed twelve
articles.  I figure he gets twelve votes."



OK.  Enough.  Here:


January BAD Meeting
WHERE:  Cafe Au Coquelet, 2000 University Ave. at Milvia, two blocks west
        (downhill) of Shattuck, downtown Berkeley.
WHEN:  Wed. Jan. 9, 7:30 PM
GETTING THERE:  

By BART: Exit at Berkeley Station onto University Avenue, and head
downhill (west) one long block to the corner of Milvia Street. Cafe Au
Coquelet is on the near side, on the left. 

By AC Transit: Any of the numerous bus lines that stop at or near
Berkeley BART will do. 

By car: Take I-80 to Berkeley, exiting eastbound onto University Avenue,
and proceeding about 1.5 miles uphill (east) to the corner of Milvia
Ave.  There's free street parking in the evenings. 

Map:  http://linuxmafia.com/bale/map-aucoquelet.jpeg

DESCRIPTION:  We'll be in the back room, where there's always plenty of 
free tables.  (The back room has table service.  The more-crowded front
room does not.)  Look for the laptop with the Debian bumper sticker.
Open until 1:30 AM.  Cash only.  Beer/wine/cider offered; minors welcome.
Social meeting; no agenda.


If Mike Markley puts that on http://bad.debian.net/ , it's official.  If
not, it's not.

-- 
"Is it not the beauty of an asynchronous form of discussion that one can go and 
make cups of tea, floss the cat, fluff the geraniums, open the kitchen window 
and scream out it with operatic force, volume, and decorum, and then return to 
the vexed glowing letters calmer of mind and soul?" -- The Cube, forum3000.org