[buug] Impressions of First Meeting

[Chris Miller]

Windsor Schmidt wrote:
> 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.
>   
Something I learned from my Eagle Scout project is to get a point of 
contact that has the keys to the desired building.  People like that can 
either unlock the building or they can call someone else to do it as well.
> 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.
>   
That will probably be where most ideas for future talks will come from.  
I concur.
> 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.
>   
Perhaps a Yahoo Business account for hosting?  It's Yahoo, so it's 
better than some cheeseball like DreamHost, plus they feature unlimited 
bandwidth and disk space.  No root access, so we'd probably have to use 
them as a file dumping ground only, and just mod_proxy to them from a 
more controlled routing server...  perhaps?  I'm just floating possible 
setups past at this point.  Also to consider is Amazon's web services.  
I've been bouncing around the 'net for a long time always on the Quest 
for the Better Host, but I'll be interested to hear what other 
suggestions others have.


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