Some updated list stats, etc.:
A fair increase (7.5% increase in total uniques) since I last checked
(see references),
list subscribers (does include also those with delivery disabled):
$ wc -l */memb*`date -I`
28 balug-admin/membership_2007-12-28
336 balug-announce/membership_2007-12-28
261 balug-talk/membership_2007-12-28
$ sort -u */membership_*`date -I` | wc -l
518
e-mail addresses that are subscribed to "talk", but *NOT* subscribed
to "announce".
$ { sort -u balug-talk/membership_`date -I`
> cat balug-announce/membership_`date -I` \
> balug-announce/membership_`date -I`; } | sort | uniq -u | wc -l
177
That will soon get "corrected" ... policy has been changed, and for those
that don't ask to be excepted, if they're on "talk" (or "admin") but not on
"announce", they'll get added to "announce" unless they follow
the procedure to get added to the exception list (this has been mentioned
now on the "talk" and "admin" lists ... I'll wait a few days or so for
folks to ask to be "excepted" - and then add those that don't ask to
be excepted to the "announce" list - I plan to do this *early* next year -
before we do our next send to the "announce" list).
I also restricted access of the list roster to the list admins - to prevent
potential abuse (e.g. by spammers). Those that have access to the balug
group on new.balug.org can also read periodically archived copies of the
list roster and backup copy of the archives (
file://new.balug.org/home/balug/e-mail_lists/
)
references:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-October/000419.…http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2007-December/004105.…http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-December/000470…
Hi BALUG volunteers:
Chrisitan Einfeldt is curious to know whether or not he can film BALUG's
January meeting. I see no problem with this, but I do know that SVLUG had
a bit of an uproar when some of their sessions were recorded by Google and
posted on Youtube w/o a free licenses.
I would want to ensure that the BALUG community had access to the film.
For me, posting to Youtube (or preferably another higher quality site)
would be good enough, but having witnessed the SVLUG spat, it might be
better to request the film be licensed under the creative commons or
something like that.
If we don't hear back from anyone on this issue, the default is going to
be to let Christian film so long as he makes it accessible to BALUG in
some way.
-Andrew
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From: Christian Einfeldt [mailto:einfeldt@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:19 PM
To: RSVP(a)balug.org
Subject: RSVPing for January BALUG dinner
hi,
please put me on the list!
Also, would it be okay if I film there? I am not sure that I will, in
fact film, simply because the lighting at that restaurant is too dark.
But it would be nice to know if I could film there. Maybe just shoot a
few people having dinner with Eric and the other BALUGers.
Thanks either way.
--
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we've already gotten 18 RSVPs
for the BALUG meeting in January. I expect a few more RSVPs to trickle in
over the next couple of days from the mailings that I did on 12/24. As a
marketing guy, I'm a bit embarrassed that I picked such a bad day to blast
the mailings, but life got in the way of it happening any earlier.
Additional promotions include...
1)Forums (already posted to gentoo, ubuntu & linuxquestions.org... more on
the way)
2)ESR blog mention? ...a long shot, but there is no harm in asking
3)2nd Email blast in January (planning to be a bit smarter about timing
and targeting Tuesday, January 8th)
4)Flyers to be put up at SF city college (by Andrey) and Stanford (by me)
None of the RSVPs are from BALUG regulars, so I'm optimistic that we are
going to draw a big enough crowd (40+) for the Four Seas Restaurant to let
us eat buffet style upstairs. Personally, I think 50 is a realistic
number and I'm hoping for closer to 100.
I'll contact the Four Seas over the next couple of days and request that
they let us sit upstairs and eat buffet style.
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Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway
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Balug Volunteers:
I just received an RSVP for Balug's December meeting. I replied directly
back to the person explaining that there was not December meeting but
encouraging them to attend our January meeting an letting them know about
a couple other LUGs that are meeting this month.
I think that we should mention on our talk & announce lists that there is
no meeting this month. Any objections? If not, I'll do this in the next
day or two.
-Andrew
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Dear All:
Based on a couple of email conversations that I had with Rick Moen last
week (both on the balug_admin list and privately), I'd like to touch base
with the rest of the group regarding the use of other LUG's mailing lists
for BALUG announcements. As such I'm not going to do a reminder email
blast of other LUG's lists for tomorrows event.
The basic concern is some people on specific LUG lists don't like other
LUGs posting their events. The rational is "If I wanted BALUG
announcements, I'd subscribe to the BALUG announce list." I have
personally only heard this complaint from Rick, and my gut tells me that
his in the minority, but I don't want to be naive to the fact that others
may share his sentiment so advice/opinions here would definitely be
appreciated.
The problem is that other LUGs mailing lists are a great way for BALUG to
get the word out and abandoning them will make it quit difficult to let
folks know about all of the great speakers we have lined up for 2008.
My proposed solution, that I believe Rick supports, is to contact the
organizations individually and ask them how to handle their lists.
Thoughts?
-Andrew
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Andrew Fife
Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway
download.untangle.com
650.425.3327 (O)
415.806.6028 (C)
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