[GLLUG] Presentations, Website, Meeting Announcement

[Charles Ulrich]

Howdy all,

First of all, I want to apologize for my continually late meeting 
announcements. Recently, they've all come a little too close to the 
deadline. A few never appeared at all. I'll be working on something 
soon that will automate this. (Yes, I intend to replace myself with a 
very small shell script.)

Now to the business at hand.

1) Presentations.

In particular, we need them. We'll be starting up a slightly different 
schedule as of next week. The schedule, it would seem, is two 
workshop-style meetings (like what we've been doing throughout the 
summer), an LPI Certification training night, and one presentation 
night. On months that happen to have an extra Thursday (roughly every 
third month), we'll try to meet at a different venue just to spice 
things up a bit.

I've got a couple of people lined up for presentations, but they are not 
able to present until possibly a few months down the road. (Those who 
have offered to present, please email me your short presentation 
description as soon as you can.) I will be attempting to contact the 
Novell and NetMax to (re)schedule their respective presentations.

We welcome presentations on practically any topic. The only requirement 
is that we want it to involve Linux or open source software in some 
way. Commercial presentations are welcome as well, but we would 
appreciate ones which demonstrate the features and uses of the product 
or technology rather than simply market it. We like to ask lots of 
in-depth and nerdy questions, so be prepared for those. (In other 
words, send your tech person, not your salesperson. We like to heckle 
salespeople until they cry. Not that we've ever done anything like 
that. Recently.)

So if you've got a really great, keen, and cool piece of software or 
something that you know inside out and would like to introduce to the 
rest of us, go right ahead and send me a short description and when 
you'd like to do it. Or if you'd like to see a presentation on 
something, by all means throw the suggestion out to the list!

If we don't have anyone volunteering to do a presentation in September, 
I'll be forced to do one on [dramatic and ominous chord] manually 
creating XF86Config and xorg.conf files.

Just as importantly, we could use ideas for the workshops. Send those 
along as well!

We also need volunteers for the LPI certification training nights. We 
have the content, all you have to do is regurgitate it in front of 
others and be somewhat familiar with it so that you can answer 
questions and give examples.

Finally, flyers. We always need flyers. Be a pal, make us a few and send 
them to the list.

2) Website.

I just switched the www.gllug.org site over to the new Mambo-based site. 
Quite obviously, it needs some work. Those with content-posting 
privileges may feel free to post some content and help build the site 
into what it should be. I'll be working on what I can this week and 
possibly over the weekend. If you want to help but don't have 
privileges, post a request to the list and we'll see what we can do. In 
general, if you've been a part of the LUG for a long time OR if you 
show up to meetings semi-regularly, there shouldn't be any problem.

Also, the... er, aesthetics of the site can probably be improved to some 
degree. If you want to tinker with the layout or CSS, I can post the 
template here to the list.

3) Meeting Announcement. (Aha, you thought I'd forget, didn't you?!)

Another weekly GLLUG meeting is scheduled to be held at the Gone Wired 
cybercafe in Lansing at 6:00PM. Gone Wired is at 2021 E Michigan Ave in 
Lansing on the north side of the street between N Clemens and Fairview 
avenues. Here is a map with the (approximate) location:

http://tinyurl.com/7mh2w

We typically meet in the back portion of the cafe on the lower level. 
Venue website: http://www.gonewiredlansing.com/

Agenda: (null)

We honestly don't have anything on the agenda. Not that it really 
matters much, as most of us have a smashing good time chattering back 
and forth about one geeky thing or another over cafe-style beverages 
even when there is an agenda. So come on out and chatter!

Please take a moment to RSVP if you plan to attend this meeting so that 
we can get a general idea of how many will show up. Just reply to this 
message (with the GLLUG list address in the "To:" field) indicating 
your desire to attend and/or change the message Subject to "RSVP". 
Thanks!
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