[buug] Tom Belote is willing to speak about backup

[john_re]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:29:13 -0700 (PDT), "Andrew Fife"
<afife at untangle.com> said:
> Keith Goodman wrote:
> >I'd like to hear a talk on backup programs, especially duplicity.
> 
> John Reagan responded:
> >Great idea. Do yo know anyone who might could give it??
> 
> I spoke with Tom Belote and he would be willing to give a talk on backup
> from a Linux perspective at the July meeting.  Tom is quite knowledgeable
> about backup having spent much of 06/07 writing a backup application for
> a
> previous startup.
> 
> Please let me know if this is something that BUUG is interested in.

Thanks for making the suggestion Andrew. 

Folks, I don't have time right now to think up & post the details, but,
my general idea is, (kinda using the spirit of the shotgun meeting rules
over at bay area debian bad.debian.net)
1) If you are willing to make a personal commitment to attend a talk
someone offers to make,
2) email the potential speaker & the list saying you'll attend,
3) if the speaker emails the list & says they'll commit to being there,
4) then the speaker is confirmed to speak,
5) & all announcements about that meeting can include them in the list
of confirmed speakers.

Point is - I don't need to be involved. - You all (attendees) are free
to do all the speaker arranging by yourselves.

One point I haven't fully thought out, yet, is times for speakers.
That's important because if an announcement goes out, it would be nice
to have the speakers time there. That way, if the announcement goes out
to another list, & someone on that list sees it, but can't attend for
the full 6 (or whatever) hours of the event, they will see a speaker
time & can know to come just for the time of that talk.

Perhaps we could setup a wiki for speaker scheduling?


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