[huskerlug] Re: Meetings and stuffs
- From: Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:40:26 -0500
I could only really attend on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday nights (and
some Wednesday nights would be out). Its certainly not crucial that I
attend, but I'd really like to be there and help where I can.
A less formalized meeting would be a welcome shift. We could even have
some LAN gaming if that'd float your boat. (Has everyone tried
'Nexuiz', seems like a nice, fun FREE fps based on the quake 2 (or is it
3?) engine. It looks dated, but the price is right. Might be a good
way to spend an evening. Perhaps HLUG could run a Nexuiz or the like
server. Maybe even a LAN from home (Can you do that? Maybe it should
be called a WAN party.) night would be cool. But I digress and these
parentheses are getting mighty far apart.)
Cheers,
Carl Lundstedt
UNL
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:23 -0600, Martin Wolff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There has been some talk on the list about meetings so I should clear stuff
> up.
> (Coincidentally, I was going to send an email out about this
> tomorrow.) We haven't had a meeting since sometime last August.
> Yeah, Cesar is gone or is leaving very shortly. :-(
>
> Although we haven't had a meeting in a long time, we are going to
> start having regular meetings. In the past, the meetings, or at least
> it seems to me, were done sporadically. I would like to go ahead and
> setup a regular meeting time and place. To do this, I would like to
> get a feel for what times are good on the list and then have a first
> meeting where we put it to a vote. Last semester we said we would
> kind of team up with ACM, however, I don't think really anything came
> of that. I would like to see what other people think about teaming up
> with ACM and discuss whether we should try it again or go our separate
> way like we have in the past. (Personally, I think I'm more for just
> having separate meetings. What do you think? )
>
> One of the reasons we have had so few meetings is that in the past we
> would basically have a presentation every meeting by someone. The
> problem with this is that it is really hard to find people who are
> both willing to present and have something interesting to present
> about. In my experience most people are willing to present, but don't
> feel that they have anything interesting to talk about. I'd like to
> encourage more presentations, even if it is on basic linux topics. In
> addition to very technical presentations someone may want to simply do
> a presentation about their favorite distribution. I would also like
> the lug to become more of a club than just a normal LUG.(Afterall we
> are a campus club) In other words, if someone has something they want
> to present we'll schedule that, but otherwise, it will be more like an
> open forum. I would like it to become more like the install fests the
> HLUG does. I would like the meetings without presentations scheduled
> to become meetings where linux geeks simply sit around and do stuff
> with linux. Got a problem with linux? Maybe someone could help.
> Bring your computer in. Got something you found and love about linux,
> but it isn't really big enough for a presentation? Come show it off
> anyway. Got a problem with how something is handled politically in
> the linux world? Gripe about it. That sort of stuff. Basically, I
> would love for some of the meetings to be presentation style meetings
> like we used to have in the past, but for the majority of meetings to
> be more like the install fest where people sat around and actually
> played with linux.
>
> In the meantime, the HLUG has come into possession of SIX of the old
> cse machines. What I would like to do at the first meeting is to
> maybe schedule a time and get the names of some volunteers to come in
> and work on them. At the minimum, one should serve as our webserver
> for the group. What we do with the rest of them, however, is up for
> debate. I recently got a key to the room so we can work on them.
> They are all lined up and ready to go in this corner, cement-walled
> cubicle thing area in the 501 building. I would especially like to
> thank Cesar, Sally, and everyone else involved with making this
> happen.
>
> Also, you should really come to the first meeting to simply give your
> input.(or as always, send an email to the hlug mailing list with your
> idea.)
>
> OK, that was kinda long as far as emails go on listservs. Recapping quickly--
>
> What times work well for people to hold the first meeting of second semester?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin Wolff
> President of the HLUG
>
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