This Sundays meeting

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:50:58 -0400 (EDT)


I thought we were discussing moving this sundays meeting to next weekend
because of Father's day?




On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Mark Szidik wrote:

>
> Sorry that I have been so quiet about the meeting this Sunday.  I
> have a bad cold and missed two days of work.  I have not spent
> much time on the old Linux box lately.
>
> I have been meaning to talk to the group about meetings over the
> summer for some time now.
>
>
> Here are three items in cronological order:
>
> 1)  This Sunday.  I am happy to meet this sunday.  5 - 7 PM
>
> I'll talk about my recent trip to the SANS [1] Security
> conference in Baltimore.
>
> *If you intend to come to this Sundays meeting please reply.*
>
> There is a NEW meeting location.  It is the community room in the
> Lansing Police Departments South Precint office at the SW corner
> of Cedar and Holmes.  Go in the front door, down the steps to
> your left and then turn right, first door on left.  (there also
> is a desk person to guid you)
>
> Lets try this location out.  Its free for the club to use.  Its
> neutral turf (Roger and I are not required to be there for the
> meeting to still take place).  Its more centrally located (but
> not by a whole lot.)
>
> (James Dooley: please update the website for the new location and
> topic)
>
>
> B) [2]
> I also have the room scheduled for July 15th from 1 to 5pm.  This
> could be a good date for an installfest.  Ideas?
>
> DPK: want to do the PERL thing on this date?
>
> Maybe we could do Pizza at Pizza Hut down the road afterward.
>
> iii) Future of GLLUG meetings:
>
> (I want to stir up some discussion here)
>
> I think we should consider disbanding meatspace[3] meetings
> altogether.  For the last year or so they have been suite
> disappointing to me.  Attendance has declined steadily for the
> last few months and we often have really hard times picking a
> date/time/location that makes even a few happy.
>
> I propose that we try to setup some kind of effective cyberspace
> meeting method instead.
>
> Comments?
>
>
> Your Humble Servant and GLLUG Pres,
> -Mark
>
>
>
> [1] SANS: System Administration and Network Security -
> http://www.sans.org
>
> [2] I get my numbering scheme from Click & Clack
> http://cartalk.cars.com/About
>
> [3] http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/meatspace.html
>
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