Excellent. Thank you Patrick, and John. (Bcced to Patrick McGovern; also, FYI Patrick: the balug-admin@lists.balug.org list is publicly archived and includes the BALUG speaker coordinators, plus more folks that also do and/or are interested in following other BALUG administrivia (planning, etc.) matters). Patrick - John may have already asked/mentioned this, but we could use suitable "blurbs" for web site, etc. (we have at least one older one, see also information further below, including reference to the one we have from earlier). You can send/reply to the "speaker coordinators" (from some of the earlier e-mail sent to you), or to this list if you prefer. We have earlier description ("longish blurb" description) on: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-August/000074... (look towards the bottom of that item). Let us know if you'd want us to tweak that. More about "blurbs" a bit further below. Quoting Michael Paoli: < If you can also get some suitable < blurb(s)/bio(s) on speaker(s) for updates on the web site, < announcements, etc., that's also highly useful (e.g. a short "title" < for the talk, a rather to quite short description (one to three < sentences), a somewhat longer description (up to about a longish < paragraph or two short paragraphs), and a bio for speaker(s) and/or < company/organization/project (up to a paragraph or two total, < emphasis on technical and other interesting (e.g. random personal) < stuff, (very!) light on the sales/marketing). I'll get the BALUG web site updated on information for the 2006-10-17 BALUG meeting speaker, and I'll plan for having an updated "announcement" drafted within 24 hours, and then plan to have it sent out within 24 hours of that. Anything else we want to add to updated announcement? I'm thinking: 2006-10-17 speaker/presentation information (brief) reminder (and reference to information) about monitoring SIG No BALUG meeting in Dec. Anything else? references/excerpts: Quoting John Mark Walker:

Pat is confirmed (and CC'd here) as of this afternoon.

On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Michael Paoli wrote:

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Any updates? Do we have confirmation for Patrick McGovern for the 2006-10-17 BALUG meeting