Jan 9 Wed BAD, 7P Meeting, 8P Speaker Ben Pfaff, Si Valley

[tluxt]

Quoting Rick Moen:
> Thanks for the generous work in trying to set things up, with regard to
> a consistent South Bay venue, with regard to Ben P., and with regard to
> Cafe Au Coquelet.
...
> if you really want the North San Jose Carl's Jr. for January,
> I'm not in your way.  Proceed as you think best, and have fun.

Rick Moen is now currently Coolest Debainer for 2002. 
[On behalf of the Debian/GNU/Linux/FreeSW/..., "Thanks Rick."
PS: Someone owes that guy a free beverage of his choice,
costing less than $5.00.  :)  
PPS: Show up at the Jan BAD in SiV, Rick, & I'll buy you one.  :) ]

> Me, I figure I'm done unless/until Mike posts something on
> http://bad.debian.net/ , which will determine whether I need to reflect
> that on BALE.

Well, I guess that _is_ the almost bottom line.  Actual bottom line
is who shows up where, when.  

(See * footnote at end for a comment to insert here:)
Well, BAD list members, 
in short, let's assume we're operating like last Dec, and that
the mailing list here is the final authority until the BAD page
maintainer speaks up, and that thus we're in Si Valley for a while.

[*****  IMPORTANT:
  Rick: After you read the footnote at the end, would you at least
immediately (before the BAD page is updated) add to BALE for BAD:

Time: 7P, Speaker at 8P
City: Tentatively SJ
Details: Check out http://bad.debian.net/list/2002-January/thread.html
         for latest info.

If you eliminated those two current "?"'s from the BALE entry
on BAD it might perhaps get a few more people to come to the meeting.
Thanks.  :) ]


================================================================
THEREFORE: 
     PLAN ON BAY AREA DEBIAN MEETING IN SI VALLEY
     JAN 9 WED 
     7PM, GET TOGETHER 
     8 PM, SPEAKER BEN PFAFF, TOPIC TO BE DETERMINED
     TENTATIVELY AT:  CARL'S JR, SAN JOSE, NORTH 1ST ST @ TRIMBLE
          Final location TBD ASAP by tluxt.

(Today I'll call Carl's to confirm we can have the meeting room.)
(Whoever is in charge of updating bad.debian.net (Mike?) - would 
you post this as the officail tentative info (if you concur)?  
Thanks.  :)  )
================================================================


--- Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> If a talk is desired, I am willing to give one, if there's
> something that I know that people are interested in.  
...
> I have the papers accompanying previous talks up on my webpage at
>         http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/writings/
> At the bottom of that page there's a pretty dated list of topics
> that I thought the GLLUG might be at least remotely interested
> in.  If anything piques your interest, point it out, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if no one cared about any of those topics.
> 
> If anyone wants to suggest a topic, go ahead.  I'm basically a
> programmer, but I've done some system administration too.  For
> Debian I'm the maintainer of the autoconf, gccchecker, debview,
> doschk, fmtools, gnu-standards, kftgt, nqc, w3-e20, w3-e21, and
> w3-url packages.  I'm a heavy user of GNU Emacs and the standard
> C programming language.  I've done a little bit of kernel hacking
> as the author of the vga16fb and radio-rtrack2 drivers and a
> small patch or two elsewhere.
> -- 
> "Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual
>  machine specification.  One should not assume that every virtual
>  machine implementation contains a giant squid."
> --"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java"

Ben Pfaff closely trails Rick for Coolest Debianer for 2002.

Ben: 
1) There's about 5 days to notify the world of the meeting,
2) We're starting from a small current attendance base,
3) The location hasn't yet been confirmed by Carl's,
4) It's a change from the previously suggested location,
5) Your talk topic hasn't been determined yet,
6) It's the 1st meeting on a new paradigm with two new aspects:
     a) fixed location, b) talk included.

Conclusion: Small audience this time.

So: I suggest you pick any topic you want. 
Here's some suggestions:
"Making Debian packages"
"My Debian package: autoconf"
"My Debian package: gccchecker" (or debview, vga16fb
   radio-rtrack2 [what is that?])
   Video, sound, multimedia: I like em all.
   Anything you want to talk about like that sounds good.
"My Debian packages: autoconf, gcc......"
"My plans for Debian World Domination"
"My plans for Debian Enduring Freedom [tm, sm, (c)]"

Whatever you choose, if the only attendees are some empty chairs
for this meeting, you can always be our 1st "Re-Featured Speaker"
and come back and talk on the same or any other interesting topic.

[*****  IMPORTANT:
Ben: Please pick some tentative topic within 1 day, 
and email us here with the topic, so that I can post that to a few
local lists so that someone might actually see the announcement,
be intrigued, and actually come to the meeting.]

=====

PS: Everyone welcome Robin Rowe to the Bay Area.
He runs Debian & Windows,
writes an excellent column for Linux Journal 
about Video & Linux:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4483
  (search on Robin Rowe for all his articles)
is a _very_ helpful guy,
used to live in Seattle,
(isn't that where that Linux "Journal" is from?)
intends to have a monthly Debian meeting in Berkeley
in conjunction with BUUG on 1st Thurs of each month.

Notice how he came here just after the release of Windows XP?
He is obviously an undercover agent saboteour / spy for Microsoft,
who's been sent down here to infiltrate "The Linux Movement" -
along with that damn socialist GNU "Free" SW license making 
Finn, Torvalds, who works for 
that company funded by Gates' company cofounding partner.

Robin is definitely on my list to be invited to give some talks at BAD.

Robin Rowe closely trails Ben for Coolest Debianer for 2002.

(PS: Ian Z is always in close contention for Coolest Debianer.)

==========

OK, everyone, make plans to B.:orB[].

(EOT)
=======================================================

(*) (Comment for above)
[The point here is: is the BAD page maintainer currently unreachable?]
Since bad.debian.net hasn't been updated past last Nov,
and Robin Rowe told me he hasn't gotten a reply from 
Mike Markley mike@markley.org yet on some correspondence (IIRC),
and since I got no reply on my earlier post to this list
requesting someone at least update the BAD page to indicate a 
Jan BAD meeting
will be somewhere, & since I don't recall who is responsible
for that, and am too busy to search the answer, but am assuming(sp)
it is Mike,


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