BALUG-Admin March 2008

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Need Some Event Help w/ Shuttleworth
by Andrew Fife 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Hi Folks: can anyone get to BALUG tomorrow night by 6:15pm to help out? Specifically, I could use some help at the door collecting cash and handing out name tags. We are officially at 92 RSVPs, which is nearly double the normal attendance so I'd like to setup two cash & name tag stations so that we don't create a huge logjam to get in. Also, if you're handy with a camera, come and snap some pics... it would be great to document Shuttleworth at BALUG. -Andrew

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Re: [BALUG-Admin] Meeting feedback form for meeting attendees?
by Andrew Fife 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

I am in favor of doing this, but suggest we do it at a later meeting. We may have a sellout crowd, which is going to mean more moving parts and I don't think this is the right meeting to add complexity. Thats said, I have a couple of suggestions to consider: 1)drop location... we aren't changing it so no need to ask 2)split #2 on food/cost into two seperate questions... did you like the food & was it a good value 3)questions #3 through #9 feel like they overlap. also, I'm not sure if they really provide value to balug. Our goal is not to improve our speaker's slides or public speaking ability, but rather provide speakers that our members find interesting. Rewriting from that perspective might lead to questions like "did you find the speaker interesting," "did you learn anything new," "would you attend a talk by the speaker again next year." 4)we should put the questions that we are most interested in at the top of the list 5)lets drop name & contact info 6)lets make the "how did you hear about balug" questions multiple choice: mailing list, forum, other LUG meeting, other... all with a write-in space to say which mailing list, forum or lug meeting ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu> To: balug-admin(a)lists.balug.org Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:53:53 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [BALUG-Admin] Meeting feedback form for meeting attendees? Should we do a feedback form for meeting attendees? We've at done this at least occasionally before[1] Don't necessarily need to give and have everyone fill out a form (particularly if we have a rather large to huge turnout), but at least getting a representative sample (e.g. preparing 25 to 50 forms, and passing out forms one to a person until we run out of forms, or attendees) could be quite useful and informative. Anyway, I was thinking a form, perhaps relatively similar to before[2] ... perhaps add a bit to ask folks "Where did you hear about BALUG?", and "Where did you hear about this event/meeting?" - as that could be rather to quite useful (most notably in knowing where we're getting more useful returns on our publicity work). I'd be at least moderately inclined to keep the other questions and scale as similar to before, as feasible - so we can at least do some reasonably objective comparisons - at least if we wish to do so. Of course if there's good reason to change a question or how it's sated, we certainly could do that, ... but that would skew or invalidate any potential comparisons to earlier data. Anyway, as rough idea for survey form, I was thinking something like [3] (okay, so I couldn't resist tweaking it a *slight* bit from earlier version). Footnotes/references/etc.: 1. e.g.: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-October/000099.… http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-May/000032.html 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-October/000099.… 3. : BALUG Meeting Feedback Form ____-__-__ YYYY-MM-DD Using a scale of 0 (worst) to 10 (best) how would you rate the following: ___ Meeting time and location? (able to get to it, find it, etc.) ___ Food and service? (value/price, quality, service, etc.) ___ This talk/presentation overall? ___ Talk/presentation materials? ___ Oral presentation? ___ Presenter's knowledge of subject/material? ___ Examples/demonstration presented? What do you think were the worst things about this talk/presentation? What do you think were the best things about this talk/presentation? Please provide any general comments on how you think this meeting and/or talk/presentation could be improved or should be changed: Where did you hear about BALUG? Where did you hear about this event/meeting? (Optional) Your name and/or contact information: _______________________________________________ BALUG-Admin mailing list BALUG-Admin(a)lists.balug.org http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-admin-balug.org

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Meeting feedback form for meeting attendees?
by Michael Paoli 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Should we do a feedback form for meeting attendees? We've at done this at least occasionally before[1] Don't necessarily need to give and have everyone fill out a form (particularly if we have a rather large to huge turnout), but at least getting a representative sample (e.g. preparing 25 to 50 forms, and passing out forms one to a person until we run out of forms, or attendees) could be quite useful and informative. Anyway, I was thinking a form, perhaps relatively similar to before[2] ... perhaps add a bit to ask folks "Where did you hear about BALUG?", and "Where did you hear about this event/meeting?" - as that could be rather to quite useful (most notably in knowing where we're getting more useful returns on our publicity work). I'd be at least moderately inclined to keep the other questions and scale as similar to before, as feasible - so we can at least do some reasonably objective comparisons - at least if we wish to do so. Of course if there's good reason to change a question or how it's sated, we certainly could do that, ... but that would skew or invalidate any potential comparisons to earlier data. Anyway, as rough idea for survey form, I was thinking something like [3] (okay, so I couldn't resist tweaking it a *slight* bit from earlier version). Footnotes/references/etc.: 1. e.g.: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-October/000099.… http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-May/000032.html 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-October/000099.… 3. : BALUG Meeting Feedback Form ____-__-__ YYYY-MM-DD Using a scale of 0 (worst) to 10 (best) how would you rate the following: ___ Meeting time and location? (able to get to it, find it, etc.) ___ Food and service? (value/price, quality, service, etc.) ___ This talk/presentation overall? ___ Talk/presentation materials? ___ Oral presentation? ___ Presenter's knowledge of subject/material? ___ Examples/demonstration presented? What do you think were the worst things about this talk/presentation? What do you think were the best things about this talk/presentation? Please provide any general comments on how you think this meeting and/or talk/presentation could be improved or should be changed: Where did you hear about BALUG? Where did you hear about this event/meeting? (Optional) Your name and/or contact information:

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Re: [BALUG-Admin] [BALUG-Talk] Interested in a talk on "CTL"?
by Andrew Fife 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi Bill: Thanks for suggesting Alex Honor as a speaker for BALUG. At the present time, BALUG has speakers booked through September. However, SVLUG and PenLUG are certainly possibilities. The next available slots are SVLUG on May 7 and PenLUG slot on May 22. -Andrew ---------------------------------------- Andrew Fife Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway download.untangle.com 650.425.3327 (O) 415.806.6028 (C) afife(a)untangle.com -----Original Message----- From: balug-talk-bounces(a)lists.balug.org [mailto:balug-talk-bounces@lists.balug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Kendrick Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:52 AM To: BALUG Talk Subject: [BALUG-Talk] Interested in a talk on "CTL"? A fellow named Alex Honor recently spoke at the Sacramento Linux Users Group and I heard it was a great talk, so I invited him to come out to LUGOD in April. He said he'd be interested in speaking at other groups as well. Here's a quick summary from the LUGOD site: CTL is a new open source project for enterprise management, written in Java, but with bindings to Python, Perl, Ruby, shell, Javascript, and more. CTL is not an acronym; think of what 'apachectl' does for the Apache webserver, and imagine what such a tool might do for your entire enterprise and you've got CTL. About the Speaker: Alex Honor is open source project lead and principle architect at ControlTier. Formerly, he was head of E*trade system engineering, and carried them from dot boom to dot bomb and has been specializing in cradle to grave distributed enterprise software management ever since. Would you guys be interested in booking him? Let me know off-list and I'll pass his contact info along to you. -- -bill! bill(a)newbreedsoftware.com http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ _______________________________________________ BALUG-Talk mailing list BALUG-Talk(a)lists.balug.org http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org

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Can You Help Publicize the Shuttleworth Event?
by Andrew Fife 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hey guys: Can any of you help promote the Mark Shuttleworth event? Michael Paoli and I have the LUG mailing lists covered. However, if you know of any good forums to post the event in it would be great if you could help get the word out... but please use good judgment to not spam forums. There is list of forums that have already been covered for Shuttleworth's talk listed here: http://www.sf-lug.com/wiki/doku.php?id=event_communications#event_listing_ websites but if you know of any others please feel free to use the formatted text below if you like it, but please preview the formatting before posting because each forum has slightly different structure. -- [B]Mark Shuttleworth[/B] will be speaking at the [URL="http://www.balug.org"]Bay Area Linux Users Group[/URL] on [B]Tuesday, March 25th[/B]. The event starts at [B]6:30pm[/B] in San Francisco and everyone is welcome to attend. That said, we may have space limitations so RSVPing is a very good idea... it also helps us plan how much food to prepare. [B]RSVP(a)balug.org[/B] [B][U]Cost[/U][/B] The event is free, but dinner costs $13 for anyone who wants to eat [B][U]Location[/U][/B] 6:30pm Tuesday, March 25th The Four Seas Restruant 731 Grant Ave San Francisco, CA 94108 [U][B]Parking[/B][/U] Parking on the street can be difficult. $5 Parking within 1 block of the restaraunt is availible in the [URL="http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/"]Portsmouth Garage[/URL] at 733 Kearny. [B][U]Upcoming Speakers[/U][/B] BALUG has an excellent lineup of speakers for 2008. We've already hosted Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens and our upcomming speakers include: March 25th - Mark Shuttleworth April 15th - Eric Allman May 20th - Jeremy Allison June 17 - Andrew Morton July 15 - Mike Linksvayer August 19 - TBD Sept 16 - Ian Murdock With so many great speakers, why not join BALUG's low-volume announce list? [URL="http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org"]http:/ /lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org[/URL] [U][B]About BALUG[/B][/U] BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers. We meet in the upstairs dinning room of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm. At 7pm, we share a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker.

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Re: [BALUG-Admin] Job Postings on BALUG
by Andrew Fife 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Why don't we amend our jobs posting policy to disallow them completely, but point recruiters towards the svlug jobs list. Seems like we're getting more recruiters these days and AFAIK 0% have offered to give a technical talk. And frankly, I'd reject proposals from all of the recruiters that we have seen over the last 9 months. ---------------------------------------- Andrew Fife Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway download.untangle.com 650.425.3327 (O) 415.806.6028 (C) afife(a)untangle.com -----Original Message----- From: Greg Payne [mailto:gpayne@strategi.biz] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 1:56 PM To: balug-contact(a)balug.org Subject: Job Postings on BALUG Hello, I would like to know if you have a mailing list for job postings? Or how do I get my job posting on your lists. Thank you Greg Payne Technical Recruiter Strategi LLC 415-756-3142 gpayne(a)strategi.biz *** Strategi LLC - Open Jobs*** Current open positions. https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/strategillc/list -=-=- ... Electronic Privacy Notice: The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at: gpayne(a)strategi.biz

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brief reminder to go out later today (no BALUG meeting tomorrow, yes BALUG meeting on 25th!)
by Michael Paoli 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

I'm planning to send a brief reminder later today (probably sometime between 5 P.M. and 6:30 P.M.) so folks don't forget that we're *not* meeting tomorrow (3rd Tuesday) but do have our meeting this month on the 25th. Any fabulous ideas or suggestions on optimized Subject: line to concisely convey that? Maybe roughly: NOT:18th, YES:25th! BALUG & Mark Shuttleworth Any other mentions we should squeeze into that "announce" e-mailing?

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Mark Shuttleworth Abstract (Not Getting One)
by Andrew Fife 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

See the note from Mark's assistant below. I don't think this is a problem because Mark is such a big name that folks are interested in hearing what he has to say anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Claire Newman Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:12 AM To: Andrew Fife Subject: Re: Mark Shuttleworth Speaking @ BALUG in 2008? Hi Andrew, Andrew Fife wrote: > Hi Claire: > > This is a quick note to see if a title and abstract is available for the > talk that Mark Shuttleworth is planning on giving at BALUG on March 25th > Unfortunately I am unable to send you a draft of Mark's speech as he will not be preparing a written presentation. Mark is more used to speaking from hand written notes. He is very much looking forward to the evening. Best regards, Claire

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(near final?) draft for "announce" - final to go out *late* today or early tomorrow
by Michael Paoli 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

"Just" a draft draft subject: Subject: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!, and other BALUG News Comments: I tweaked the RSVP wording slightly - hopefully not so much that the % RSVPing isn't all that different. We can tweak it more substantially if/when we want on a meeting that's likely to have somewhat lower turnout - with less risk regarding variation in the % of attendees that actually RSVP. I can totally snip out the Installfest section - just let me know. I think we should have *some* mention of it fairly soon (before the information gets "too dated") but it needn't be in this particular send to "announce". Feel free to grab/steal/borrow any and/or all of what I drafted on it in this draft. Also, it might be best - if feasible, to have a link to a web page (or wiki) that has a writeup, etc., on the Installfest ... something that folk(s) can update as their's new/updated information to track (e.g. additional press coverage noted, information on additional planned Installfest, update/removal of URLs that succumb to link rot, etc. ... such as a page hosted at Untangle?). Sure, we can link to a list archive posting (such as on "talk") ... but that posting doesn't get updated - so might be better to link to something that can get updated. I'm running a wee bit behind my theoretical schedule ... anyway, hopefully I'll get this posted *late* this evening, or rather early tomorrow (give folks at least half a chance to provide feedback before the "final" hits "announce"). ######################################################################## ###### ###### # ####### ####### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # ##### # # # # # ####### # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # # # Subject: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!, and other BALUG News ######################################################################## Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!, and other BALUG News Contents: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 (note change from usual date) Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates and speakers Installfest for Schools LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco Contacts, etc. ------------------------------ Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 (note change from usual date) NOTE SPECIAL MEETING DATE: 2008-03-25 (no meeting on 2008-03-18) For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present: Mark Shuttleworth[1] of Ubuntu[2]/Canonical[3]. Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project[2], and also founded Thawte[4] (which specialized in digital certificates), HBD Venture Capital[5] (invests in early stage South African companies with high growth potential) and The Shuttleworth Foundation[6] (non-profit organization that accelerates social innovation in Africa with a particular focus on education), and also formed Canonical[3] (commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and committed to the development, distribution and promotion of open source software products, and to providing tools and support to the open source community). In April 2002, Mark also became the First African in Space[7], arriving via Soyuz TM-34 to the International Space Station and spending several days there, and returning via Soyuz TM-33. If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp(a)balug.org Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events. 1. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography 2. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 3. http://www.canonical.com/ 4. http://www.thawte.com/ 5. http://www.hbd.com/ 6. http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ 7. http://www.africaninspace.com/ 8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists ------------------------------ Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9] and speakers (see our web page[9] for more details): 2008-04-15 Eric Allman 2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison 2008-06-17 Andrew Morton 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events. 8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists 9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming) ------------------------------ Installfest for Schools[10] The (first?) Installfest for Schools[10] was held 2008-03-01, and was a highly successful event[11][12][13][14] - with hundreds of systems assembled and loaded up with Ubuntu and additional free software, all made ready for donation to schools. All made possible by Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[15], Untangle[16], additional supporters/donors/contributors - including also many User Groups (among them San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[17] and Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG)[18][11]), and a quite large number of volunteers. Watch this space for additional future updates / links to additional information on the Installfest for Schools. 10. http://www.untangle.com/installfest 11. http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22165_2 12. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q1/003914.html 13. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Old-Hardware-Gets-New-Lease-of-Life-with-Ubu… 14. http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=355&Itemi… 15. http://www.accrc.org/ 16. http://www.untangle.com/ 17. http://www.sf-lug.org/ 18. http://www.balug.org/ ------------------------------ LugRadio Live USA 2008[19] at The Metreon in San Francisco, April 12th & 13th, 2008 LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings San Francisco the unique atmosphere of LugRadio Live UK, an event that has developed a strong reputation for providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun, loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference. BALUG may also be participating in this - along with other User Groups in the area. 19. http://www.lugradio.org/live/USA2008/ ------------------------------ Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org ######################################################################## ###### ###### # ####### ####### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # ##### # # # # # ####### # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # # # ########################################################################

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BALUG (pre-)draft announce
by Michael Paoli 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

I wrote up a mini-bio for Mark Shuttleworth for our 2008-03-25 meeting: http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming) For our first annoucement this month (I'll likely get that out by about Tuesday evening or a bit earlier) I'll probably do announcement covering Shuttleworth and mostly based on that mini-bio I wrote up (unless I also get a talk outline/abstract sooner that I can also add on the web site and include in what's sent out). I'll also "ask" ("please") / remind folks to RSVP. For additional items on the announcement, I intend to also include brief mentions (with links/references) on: The 2008-03-01 Installfest for Schools LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco And short list reminding folks of additional upcoming speakers (should that be positioned between Shuttleworth and the Installfest, or towards the end?) For "reminder" / additional announcements, I'd think we'll send a 2nd announcement this month (also functioning as reminder) just a bit (a couple days or so) before the 3rd Tuesday - as this month BALUG doesn't meet on the 3rd Tuesday, but rather on the 25th (still a Tuesday, but the 4th Tuesday). Any other brief items that should get included that are suitable for the "announce" list and/or tweaks that should be made to the above? If I don't get too pressed for time, I'll probably put a "draft" to the "admin" list roughly Monday evening or so, in case folks have any "final" comments/suggestions/corrections.

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