[Balug-admin] draft for "announce"

Wed Sep 21 18:13:18 PDT 2005

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Michael Paoli wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:54:47 -0700
> From: Michael Paoli <mp@rawbw.com>
> Reply-To: Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu
> To: balug-admin-balug.org@lists.balug.org
> Subject: [Balug-admin] draft for "announce"
> 
> I was thinking "we" (one of us "announce" moderators) could send this
> out on the "announce" list ... anyone want to add/change anything before
> it goes out?  If I don't hear otherwise and don't see it (or something
> mostly covering/resembling it) sent out within about 24 hrs. or so, I'd
> probably go ahead and send it out (might be at least somewhat preferable
> if someone else sends it, so I'm not announcing myself :-)).  Anyway
> for the "announce" list item, I'm proposing (have drafted) what's
> shown below - use the line immediately above the first "cut" (8<--) line
> as the subject, and use everyting between, but not including the "cut"
> lines for the body of the message.  Also, once the e-mail has gone
> out on the "announce" list (draft of which includes presentation
> details on the October meeting), short text blurbs suitable for the
> web site can also be found in:
> http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-September/000068.html
> On the web site, there could also be suitable link(s) from such short
> text to the URL for the archive copy of the "announce" item that goes
> out on the "announce" list.
> Perhaps also even include on the web site a small/tiny blurb and link on
> yesterday's meeting (to: http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/).
>
> BALUG news: 2005-10-18 meeting: Shell Programming; and other BALUG news
> 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> BALUG 2005-10-18 meeting presentation: Shell Programming, by Michael Paoli
>
> This presentation promises to be a quite useful, informative,
> interesting, well referenced and fast introduction to Bourne (sh) and
> compatible [Korn (ksh), POSIX, Bash (bash), ash, etc.] shells.
>
> The presentation will cover a fast, but thorough tour of the shell and
> shell programming.  It will cover all the way from why one would want to
> learn shell, why start with Bourne, etc., how to compactly learn it,
> through and including most key features of shell programming, and some
> key differences and caveats among the shells, and a collection of
> references to help round out leaning about shell programming.
>
> About Michael Paoli, our presenter for this event:
> Michael Paoli has been doing UNIX systems administration for well over a
> decade, been doing LINUX systems administration for over 7 years, and
> has been using and programming Bourne and compatible shells (bash,
> etc.) since even earlier than all that.  He's also done well received
> classes/labs/presentations before, including topics of security, shells
> and Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
>
> For meeting time, location, cost (dinner), etc., please see the BALUG
> web site:
> http://www.balug.org/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> BALUG 2005-09-20 speaker: The Digital Tipping Point, by Christian Einfeldt
>
> The Digital Tipping Point: The Culture Of Freedom In Cyberspace
> We had a great presentation by Christian Einfeldt on The Digital Tipping
> Point, including lots of information on the movie project, and a 9
> minute sample of very impressive material which is likely to be be used,
> at least in substantial part, in the film.  The Digital Tipping Point is
> an open source documentary film project.
>
> "We are approaching a digital tipping point." "One documentary film, the
> Digital Tipping Point: the culture of freedom in cyberspace, will peer
> into the future to see how this change might come about, and what it
> means for humanity."
>
> So, ... just because a BALUG meeting doesn't indicate, or indicate
> reasonably well ahead of time that we've got a speaker/presentation,
> should not be taken as an indicator that we won't have an exciting,
> interesting meeting anyway - and possibly including speaker/presentation.
> So, make those meetings! :-)
> (Sorry it wasn't better announced/publicized, seems there was probably
> a communication error or omission).
>
> http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> BALUG "announce" <balug-announce-balug.org@lists.balug.org> moderated
>
> The BALUG "announce" list <balug-announce-balug.org@lists.balug.org>
> should now be moderated.  Hopefully that will keep the list relatively
> low traffic and more on-traget for more "important"/newsy BALUG
> focused/oriented announcements (e.g. meeting announcements/reminders,
> important BALUG news, etc.).
>
> More general BALUG related discussions are of course always welcomed on
> the "talk" list <balug-talk-balug.org@lists.balug.org>, which remains
> "unmoderated" (though one must be a subscriber to the list, to post to
> it).
>
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> would like to help out BALUG, or might want to get some ideas on where
> we could use some assistance or more volunteerism, that list (and/or its
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I can try to put something like you wish on the announce list.
I do not know how to put the major block on the web site but I can/will 
update the short blurb. I did at least say Michael would be doing a 
presentation at the October meeting.

Xavier or Michael Hubbard:
Could you delete and then make a block that I can add the text into 
for the October meeting. I tried but block made has no place to put the 
text. It would be nice to know how to make the block my self.

I would really rather have some one else do the job of putting the text up 
on the web site.

I under stand Michael Paoli not wanting to send to announce list and other 
place him self for his presentation.

I use Pine to read email on my Isp's machine so would have to rekey 
anything I put on the web site my self not just cut and paste.

  Larry Platzek  larryp@inow.com