[buug] Impressions of First Meeting

[Windsor Schmidt]

I had a good time, thanks people for showing up. I have a few random
thoughts about the meet-up. If any of this sounds like criticism, then
rest assured it's of the positive variety.

Venue: I'm assuming most computer people (and those interested in
performing installs) are going to want easy access to power and
internet. I'm not an expert of the Cal campus - but I think we should
brainstorm on a location that has both in abundance, and possibly some
cheaper food (and/or beer) nearby.

Agenda: It looks like there are only so many people that will actually
be performing installs at any given meeting, so the idea of prepared
talks on various topics sounds good to me, however I personally like
the idea of a large block of our time being used to simply talk about
BSD/Linux and technology in general.

Food: How about we all ante up pizza money at the start of the
meeting, order via cell-phone, and send someone out to retrieve the
pizza? From experience, my bicycle bag holds at least a large size
pizza box, so I can volunteer on this. =) Also, from what I've seen
the unix user / pizza eater correlation is pretty high, but we can go
with whatever food people can agree on. I just prefer the K.I.S.S.
model for things like this.

Videocasting: My geeky side says this is an awesome idea, and my life
experience side says that it makes sense to establish an attendee base
(people will want to have something interesting to log in and watch)
and possibly a regular venue where we can be sure of stable upstream
network bandwidth. I have some experience with CCTV and voice/video
over IP, so when the time comes I'd be happy to help with this.

See you guys next time,

-Windsor