[buug] (forw) List owner needed for callug_discuss at lists.berkeley.edu

[jim]

    larry cafiero might be interested in knowing about 
this, given his flirting involvement in college-based 
lugs. 


On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:13 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> Rick, thank you for bringing this to the BUUG list. If there are
> annual things that a campus group must do, perhaps a checklist would
> help busy students maintain continuity during the frequent group
> transitions.
> 
> Paul, I'm sure some people from the buug.org, berkeleylug.com and/or
> ubuntu-california.org groups would be interested in helping out. Let
> us know what we can do and when you are planning meetings and events.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Grant Bowman
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Paul Ivanov (pi at berkeley.edu):
> >
> >> I'm game. Should I contact CalMail directly, or go through you?
> >>
> >> ditto for the -announce list.
> >>
> >> > It would be nice if CalLUG could be revived, but first things first.
> >>
> >> I'd be up for this, as well.
> >
> > Good to hear.  To clarify, I'm just a subscriber and former attendee of
> > CalLUG's on-campus meetings.  (Gosh, it's been a while:  Their brief
> > revival ended in 2007.)
> >
> > I gather from the announcement that you would write to CalMail Staff
> > <consult at berkeley.edu>, to step up and take over as listadmin.
> >
> >
> > We can and should talk about what's required to revive CalLUG.  I
> > watched the LUG die, get revived, and die a second time, so I think I
> > know the major pitfalls and can help you avoid them.  I've been thinking
> > of adding a section to the Linux User Group HOWTO[1] about the
> > particular problems of college LUGs.  Here's the short version:
> >
> > 1.  Maintaining accreditation.  In CalLUG's case, that would be through
> > ASUC.  Accredited groups get access to Internet server resources,
> > publicity, use of rooms, right to post flyers, sometimes modest funding,
> > etc.  But you have to file timely paperwork.  Failure to do those
> > filings killed CCSF LUG.
> >
> > 2.  Continuity, especially over the summer break.  By that, I mean two
> > things:  CalLUG kept having a syndrome where the officers would get too
> > busy in May/June preparing for finals, nobody would have time to make
> > arrangements to ensure out-of-band means of communication in case the
> > CalLUG server went down, and nobody would have time to ensure
> > replacements for officers being graduated.  Some combination of those
> > two problems seems to have killed CalLUG, both times.
> >
> > [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
> > Also by the same author:  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html
> >
> >
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