[GLLUG] Meeting Times

[David Crampton]

We had a total of four people at the diner, and it was pretty fun.
Conversational topics ranged all over the place, but there were a couple
that seemed to have some personal interest to the attendees, and might be
worth finding out if wider interest exists:

- Hardening your desktop Linux install, and confirming that it's been
hardened.
- Tiny, tiny, itty bitty distros.
- Distros / window managers that do shiny, and do it well. (I admit to
being easily distracted by shiny things. No shame.)
- Linux based media streamers (XBMC/Kodi)
- Old hardware and distros that still make versions for the less older
processor types (PPC, Sparc, etc). (This one was DEFINITELY my fault.)

We also talked about cats (AKA ninja jerkfaces), kids, Penguicon, all sorts
of library goodness, travel (in the US and outside), coffee vs. tea (COFFEE
WINS, RANTI :P ), classic gaming consoles, and a bunch of other interesting
things. We may have been heckled by wait staff and regulars because I am a
regular. I will neither confirm nor deny.

I'm not sure that it's a good model for arranging future meetings, unless
you're fine with a) a primarily social meeting and b) any number of people,
from zero to ALL OF THE PEOPLE, showing up. I would definitely not
recommend it for presentation, demo, academic, or project meetings.

I'm thinking of arranging a project or demo meeting in my home, rather than
in a public place. Has this been done? Any gotchas to look out for, or
reasons it should be avoided altogether?

Thanks for the heads-up on the library! Downtown is usually my go-to
branch, so I'll have to head to South Lansing during the renovation.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/02/2016 11:56 PM, Dave Crampton wrote:
>
>> Looks like I'm going to be available Saturday evening, probably
>> around 7 pm, instead. I'll be heading to Fleetwood Diner with my
>> laptop, and will try to snag the table with the plug.
>>
>> You're welcome to drop by and join me. :)
>>
>
> Did many people show up?  Maybe this is the way to arrange meetings now,
> just announce when you'll be somewhere, rather than try to arrange
> something for a lot of people.
>
> Just in case anyone thinks the downtown Lansing library might be a good
> place for a technical or scholarly meeting (and since we've met there in
> the past), it will be closed for remodeling for about the first three
> months of 2017.
> --
>
>                                Chick
>



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