[Balug-admin] BALUG - fortune cookies, helping BALUG, etc.

[Michael Paoli]

Andrew,

I didn't manage to comb through and find all or most all of the
relevant URLs of information to check out, but here are at least
several key ones:
website transitions & status, etc. (almost current information,
also includes mention of some items we could use a bit more
volunteers/resources on):
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-June/000373.html
BALUG speaker coordination wiki page:
http://www.sf-lug.com/wiki/doku.php?id=balug_speaker_coordination
BALUG web site:
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG lists:
http://www.balug.org/#Lists
fortune cookie background:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-July/000375.html
and fortune cookie update:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-July/000385.html
There's been lots of discussion about a (combined) LUG booth at LWE,
much of that discussion - at least what I've seen - has happened on
the SF-LUG list (mostly with subjects containing "LWE", "Linux World"
or "LinuxWorld"):
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2007q2/date.html
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2007q3/date.html
SF-LUG is a separate LUG, here are their websites:
http://www.sf-lug.org/
http://www.sf-lug.com/
Bay Area Debian (BAD) (http://bad.debian.net/) will be
represented (at least a bit) at LinuxWorld at the Debian booth.
There may be quite a number of LUGs represented at the
combined LUG booth at LWE.
new.balug.org (to become www.balug.org) is on the same box as
sf-lug.com
The old BALUG web page (rather dysfunctional and mostly stripped of all
the URLs (mostly commented out) that got broken through prior transitions)
is still accessible as:
http://www.balug.org/index.php

Quoting Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>:

> Andrew,
> 
> Sorry I didn't get back to you a bit sooner, ... catching up on
> personal e-mail and such this evening, ...
> 
> I did get more information today on getting fortune cookies made up
> with custom message in them.  I'll write up a bit more on that and
> also send it to our "admin" list (where more folks get to see it,
> and it's also publicly archived).  I've got that and some other
> BALUG stuff to work on and poke at this evening (to the extent I have
> time ... that's one of about 3 things I'm working on this evening).
> One bit of good news on fortune cookies - lead times are a fair bit
> shorter than I guestimated.  The longest leadtime that was stated to me
> was one week - and the other bakery stated 3 to 4 days.  Of course we
> still have to work out exactly what we want on the little slip of paper
> and such, but we do have some wiggle room - thus far - on the timing.
> 
> Anyway, hope to get caught up on most of those bits between now and
> tomorrow morning.
> 
> Some things you might want to peek at for starters ...
> BALUG web site:
> http://www.balug.org/
> our lists on there (you might want to subscribe to at least the
> "announce" list, and if you'd like to help out more, subscribing to the
> "admin" list is highly useful, there's also the "talk" list for more
> general LINUX/BALUG discussion).  They're all publicly archived (if you
> have time, you can read/skim the "admin" postings over the past few
> months or so (there aren't all that many of them) ... I'll probably
> get around to pointing out some more key ones (and of course there's
> some new bits to send to the list too).
> 
> There are e-mail contacts also on our web page ... the ones presently noted
> at the bottom (for webmaster, balug contact, and speaker coordination)
> are probably most useful, and go to the appropriate folks (e.g.
> balug-contact goes presently to me, Dick, and Larry;
> balug-speaker-coordinators goes to about a half dozen of us that work on
> (or at least try to track) speakers/presentations and the coordination
> thereof).
> 
> Let me/us know if you want to get added to our balug-speaker-coordinators
> e-mail alias.