[buug] Impressions of First Meeting

Glen Jarvis glen at glenjarvis.com
Sat Jun 7 21:35:50 PDT 2008


Very positive and yet very constructive feedback. How awesome! And, I  
also completely agree with all of your points.

Take care everyone...


Cheers,


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On Jun 7, 2008, at 6:44 PM, 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.
>
> 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
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