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Geek Speak Women | find technical women to speak: http://geekspeakr.com/
by Michael Paoli 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

And from* LugRadio Live USA 2008, this could be a useful resource: Geek Speak Women | find technical women to speak http://geekspeakr.com/ *URL from resources from Emma Jane Hogbin's "Women in Open Source" talk on Saturday at LugRadio Live USA 2008.

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stuff for "announce", "blurbs", etc.
by Michael Paoli 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

I/we are running a bit behind. Anyone have (mini-)bio and/or text blurbs for our upcoming speaker? For "announce" - I plan to put that out *soon* - like not later than tomorrow A.M. Anything else to include in the next "announce"? I'll probably also include a reminder about LugRadio Live USA 2008, and additional upcoming speakers. Anything else to add? Yes, you too can help BALUG! :-) How about (mini-)bio writeups for additional upcoming speakers (for use on web page(s), in announcement(s), etc.), and if/when available, synopsis/brief/outline of what their talk/presentation will cover. If those materials are gotten to balug-webmaster(a)balug.org (and balug-speaker-coordinators(a)balug.org) sooner, we can get them up, and out, publicized, etc., sooner.

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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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