[GLLUG] Flint area members?

[Richard Houser]

Clay Dowling wrote:
> How may other members on this list would find a meeting place nearer to
> Flint to be more convenient?  I'm not proposing that the general venue be
> moved to Flint, but that a separate Flint Linux User's Group be formed.  I
> like the Lansing group, and it's still important to me for a number of
> reasons, but at various times I have run into people from this list who
> are closer to Flint and Lansing.  Since I live in Flushing, a group that
> met somewhere in Genesee county would be considerably more convenient.

I might swing by on occasion if these meetings happened to be on a 
Friday.  I've been heading to Flint about every other weekend on 
average.  I'd definitely be willing to help launch the group for a 
meeting or two if I was able to attend (any night of the week).  I 
definitely wouldn't be coming every week, however (I live on the west 
side of Lansing).

> Rich Houser mentioned that Kettering University has the remnants of a
> Linux User's Group that we could pick up, and I know of at least one
> person from the University of Michigan Flint Campus who is also
> interested.

The email address for the Kettering list should be kluug at kettering.edu. 
  The mailing list registration page is at 
https://spoke.kettering.edu/mailman/listinfo/kluug.

I'm not trying to discourage Flushing in any way, but the two 
neighboring universities (~4min apart from each other -- plus Mott 
College isn't that much farther) could help build a user base and could 
definitely make locating facilities easier.  Kettering already offers 
fast Wifi access to their students and vendors that come in for 
conferences, etc.  If you were to get a Flint group going with any 
reasonable percentage of Kettering community membership, you could 
probably get a posting to all the CS/CE/EE majors and free facilities if 
you were to ask nicely.