From Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu Mon Nov 14 22:19:46 2022 From: Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:19:46 -0800 Subject: [BALUG-Announce] BALUG: No Meeting this Month!, ... Message-ID: BALUG: No Meeting this Month!, ... ------------------------------ items, details further below: BALUG: No Meeting this Month! BALUG resources/giveaways/wanted/... (still looking for gift, or ???) giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ... help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ... Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ NO MEETING THIS MONTH! ------------------------------ giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ... We often have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc Donations of USB flash, blank or +-RW media, or funding thereof, also appreciated. See the above URL for details. If you're interested in anything in particular, best to request such reasonably in advance (may not schlep the inventory or portion(s) thereof, or have some particular ISO burned and available in quantity >0 if it's not requested in advance) Hardware, etc. wanted/offered! Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value), and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's offered, wanted, etc.! https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_etc Books and other titles! have a peek here: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications ------------------------------ help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ... You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG. Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org These opportunities may include, among other possibilities: o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads, on-site coordination/preparations) o chief/assistant cat herder o assist on publicity o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing (also feel free to suggest ideas!) ------------------------------ Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback@balug.org