[buug] [Baypiggies] ANNOUNCE: TOMORROW Sat June 7 INSTALLFEST TALKS POTLUCK, Berkeley 12N-6P

Fri Jun 6 10:41:08 PDT 2008

I confirm there is roughly a 75% change that I will make this meeting.  
I intend to and will do so unless an higher priority emergency comes  
up. I have work to do on a project, so I'll be coding in the corner  
and listening most of the time if that's okay.

Cheers,

Glen
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On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:12 AM, john_re wrote:

> Hi Pythonists. You might be especially interested in the 1-2PM
> Programming open discussion hour.  See the "Talks" section below.
>
> Hope to see you there.
>
> ===============================================================
> YOU are INVITED to the 1st
> Berkeley BSD GNU/Linux Installfest, Talks, & Potluck.
> This is a FREE friendly, pleasant, fun, educational & productive  
> event.
>
> LOCATION:       EVANS HALL, or nearby, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
> ROOM:           Room 5 Evans Hall: Either we will meet in this room,
> 		or see directions posted there to the meeting location.
> 	(This is the building where UNIX was developed at Berkeley.)
> TIME:           12 Noon to 6 PM - come & leave as you like.
>                Saturday June 7th
>
> This is the first meeting of what is planned to be a MONTHLY 1st
> Saturday or Sunday event. (Next month's meeting: July 5 or 6)
>
> There are 3 PARALLEL TRACKS of events:
>
> 1) INSTALLFEST  Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux  
> software.
> 2) TALKS        Talks by various speakers
> 3) POTLUCK      Bring $4 of food to share: eat, conversation
>
> This meeting is being coordinated through the
> Berkeley Unix User Group buug.org mailing list:
> http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-June/thread.html
> http://buug.org
>
> ===== DETAILS: ============================================
>
> === INSTALLFEST:  Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux
> software.
>
> This is a self reliant event. Bring everything you need. Computer,
> monitor, keyboard,  mouse, laptop, power cord, MULTI OUTLET POWER
> EXTENSION CORD, network cord, WIFI, install software CD (people will
> likely have some installation CD's, but don't count on that).
>
> For this first meeting, we _might_ NOT have any NETWORKING except
> through individuals CELL PHONE service.
>
> Please help clean up when through. Thank you.
>
> === TALKS:      Eventually we hope to have 2-6 speakers.
> For this meeting, we have no planned talks.  Instead, we have the
> following time slots reserved specifically for OPEN DISCUSSION about
> these TOPICS:
>
> 12N     DISTRIBUTIONS - BSD's, Ubuntu Debian RH Suse etc
> 1P      PROGRAMMING/DATABASES - Python, PERL, PHP, TCL, C/C++, Ruby,
> 	LISP, FORTRAN, COBOL, MSQL, etc.
> 2P      VIDEOCONFERENCE testing; NETWORKING
> 3P      BAD - Bay Area Debian MEETING. http://bad.debian.net
> 4P      GUIs - KDE, GNOME.
> 	USER APPLICATIONS - Word Proc, Web Browser, Video, Audio
> 5P      ORGANIZING future meetings,
> 	  HOWTO: ETHICAL SPAMMING - ie how to announce to LUGs, etc.
>
> Note: Meeting Talks are ATTENDEE idea generated.
> Want to HEAR a talk: POST a request for speaker to the list.
> Know a SPEAKER: POST to the list.
> Speakers are CONFIRMED by an attendee guaranteeing to ATTEND that  
> talk,
> POSTING that to the list, and HANDLING ARRANGEMENTS with the speaker.
>
> ---VIDEOCONFERENCE: Hopefully, this will become a WORLD WIDE
> SIMULTANEOUS event.  We hope to LIVE VIDEO STREAM talks to other
> participating groups.
>
> At this meeting we might setup an IRC channel, BITP, (perhaps on
> freenode?). We might try to set up an audio or video streaming test.
>
> JULY tentative planned talk topic: BACKUPS
>
> See MORE TALK IDEAS BELOW, and post to the buug mail list if there  
> is a
> talk you would like to HEAR or PRESENT.
>
> === POTLUCK:    If you want to: BRING $4 OF FOOD TO SHARE. Eat. Enjoy
> conversation with other attendees.
>
> Note: The food is only brought by attendees, there is no entity paying
> for the food, except each attendee pays for whatever they bring. So,
> obviously, be respectful of others and don't eat more than the value  
> of
> what you yourself brought.
>
> You can BRING: MAIN COURSE, VEGETABLES, FRUIT, SALAD, DESERT, DRINK  
> (no
> alcohol, please), SNACKS. It might be helpful for the first several
> meetings if people brought something from MORE THAN ONE CATEGORY of
> item. That way there will be more variety. It's great to get something
> ON SALE from the grocery store.
>
> Of course, you DON'T HAVE TO BRING anything, or $4 worth of items.   
> But,
> please be considerate of others, and don't eat more than the value of
> what you brought. Thank you.
>
> Please help clean up when through. Thank you.
>
> ===== =====
>
> === Please RSVP %
>
> If you think you _might_ come to the ITP,
> please send an RSVP % message to the buug.org mailing list
> http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug
> 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. Thank you.
>
> (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 planning. Thank you.
>
> Note: It is NOT NECESSARY to RSVP %, but would be helpful to us. If  
> you
> aren't able to or didn't send an RSVP % message, please DO ATTEND.
>
> Here is a good subject line to use for your RSVP %:
> June 7 ITP RSVP %=##
>
> === DIRECTIONS:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=&daddr=37.873592,-122.257807&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=16&sll=37.873625,-122.257807&sspn=0.008825,0.012703&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16
>
> CAR:    580/80 Eastshore Freeway to Berkeley, University Ave. exit,
> 	up University to UCB.
> BART:   Berkeley Downtown exit.
> 	Walk or Campus bus to Hearst Mining Circle.
>
> On Saturday there might be some on campus parking, but there is off
> campus street parking, and a big pay parking lot at the corner of  
> Hearst
> & Gayley, at the Northeast corner of campus. You can drive to Evans  
> Hall
> to unload something from your car.
>
> Evans Hall is at B5 in this map:
> http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/large_map.html
>
> === CARPOOLING: A GREAT IDEA!
> Post a request or announcement to the list.
> http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug
>
> Here are handy email subject lines:
> CARPOOLING Ride WANTED from xyz Sat June 7
> CARPOOLING Ride OFFERRED from xyz Sat June 7
>
> === MORE TALK IDEAS:
> For the 1st meeting some talk possibilities are:
> 0) ETHICAL SPAMMING - Howto send announcement emails automatically
>     to many group email lists. - Do you know how to do this?
>     CAN YOU GIVE AN INFORMAL HOWTO TALK ABOUT THIS at the JUNE  
> MEETING?
> 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
> 8) LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco group booths
>
> What other topics are HOT now & would be good to have talks on?
> What would YOU like to HEAR a talk on?
> Would YOU like to GIVE a talk? What SUBJECT?
>
> === FEEL FREE TO SEND THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANY RELEVANT LISTS/PEOPLE.
>
> Thank you.  I hope to see you there. :)
>
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