FYI,
I'm planning bit of maintenance and short outage for host "vicki" and its
VMs this PM
(after 5:00 P.M., probably sometime after 6:00 P.M.).
Outage should be relatively short (estimated less than 5 minutes)
This WILL NOT impact:
www.balug.orgbalug.org
BALUG's lists
It WILL impact:
many non-production services and some ancillary production services,
e.g.:
archive.balug.orgwww.archive.balug.orgwiki.balug.orgwww.wiki.balug.orgsecure.balug.org
Mike Higashi, et. al., (& CCing admin list, as there's no reason not to)
You'd earlier mentioned bit about BALUG and publicity, etc. Although
it's not exactly highly current, we *do* have a wiki page that covers
that relatively well. Sort of a "how to", and what to cover (and not
cover), and how, etc. We certainly don't cover *nearly* all that we
could. I did also add to that wiki page your suggestion about
meetup.com (I forgot the other site you mentioned, so didn't manage to
add that other one). Anyway, wiki page is here:
https://secure.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:event_communications
Certainly, at least within reason, pretty much anyone can update/improve
that page and/or volunteer to assist with publicity and event
communications/announcements.
And for those that occasionally wonder exactly who the
balug-speaker-coordinators(a)balug.org alias gets forwarded to,
one can peek towards the bottom of:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:balug_speaker_coordination
(Yep, I even peek there rather regularly myself when I'm trying to
remember exactly who is/isn't on that alias - not the authoritative
reference, but I do accurately maintain it).
Quoting Jesse Zbikowski (embeddedlinuxguy(a)gmail.com):
> Maybe we could also direct job posters to the sf-lug info page
> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
Let's talk about that.
It might be doing no favour to SF-LUG, since a recruiter who ignores
BALUG's terse bold-text guideline is unlikely to heed SF-LUG's less
prominent and more verbose one to send jobs postings to jim(a)well.com .
More to the point, IMO, your suggestion is mostly redundant to what we
already do. Why do I say that? Because the hyperlink from balug-talk's
listinfo page (http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org)
to 'SVLUG Jobs' is to a page with a _comprehensive_ list of places to
send Linux jobs postings in the Bay Area, and item #6 of 13 on that list
is 'SF-LUG [link] accepts jobs postings via the listadmin'.
I am intimately familiar with that page and its contents
(http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/jobs), because I maintain it.
Frankly, I think that SF-LUG link, with a reminder that SF-LUG accepts
jobs postings _via the listadmin_, is inherently to be preferred to
sending people directly to the SF-LUG listinfo page, which is a bit less
clear and invites more of these 'I apologise in advance if I made a
mistake' dances.
> This seems like the most appropriate place for San Francisco-based
> Linux developer jobs, since SVLUG is for the valley and BayLisa is for
> sysadmins.
Well, as a data point, I might point out that the Cisco guy was
advertising a _San Jose_ software engineering job, and that this is, in
my experience, pretty typical of the recruiters who come charging in and
ignoring BALUG's mailing list rules.