I'll probably bring some magazines and possibly some T-shirt(s) from LinuxWorld (and possibly also Picn*x14) - and perhaps some additional stuff. I gave some other folks (mostly a few co-workers) a noon Tuesday deadline to make a claim on any of the stuff they'd be interested in - I think that deadline's likely to pass with nearly zero claims made.
Other items of potential note: Next time LinuxWorld comes to San Francisco, looks like it'll be 2006-09-19 - 2006-09-21. 2006-09-19 is regular date for BALUG meeting, so we might have very good opportunity to find and recruit a big-draw speaker/presenter, and draw a rather to large crowd from LinuxWorld. We might also have opportunity to get corporate sponsors to assist with such an event in various ways (give-away prizes, etc.).
I think I mentioned it before, but I'll mention again, other user groups do often have agenda-less/speaker-less meetings, yet the meetings go quite well, e.g. Bay Area Debian (BAD) and Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG) don't have formal programs/agendas/speakers. The last BAD meeting was quite lively and well attended (24 people (23 for dinner, one needed to depart prior to dinner to meet up with another scheduled engagement)).
Of course, having a more formal program or agenda can work better for larger crowds (e.g. perhaps >~=35 people).
references/excerpts: http://www.idgworldexpo.com/live/99/TB216964 http://bad.debian.net/ http://www.buug.org/
Quoting Michael Paoli:
Reminder: BALUG meeting this Tuesday, 2005-08-16, 7:00 P.M. PDT. at Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108-2113
At this time we don't have a scheduled speaker, but that doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings. [Have questions or a topic you'd like discussed? Bring your own "agenda", talk/ask about items on it at the meeting, and it'll likely then be something we talk about :-)]
We will likely also have some giveaway items ("door prizes") at this meeting.
references: http://www.balug.org/
http://www.balug.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&...