[clue-talk] BerkeleyTIP,
was Who's in charge of this group? - Inter group meeting
BerkeleyTIP-Global August 2 Saturday
dennisjperkins at comcast.net
dennisjperkins at comcast.net
Fri Aug 1 12:07:07 MDT 2008
This could be interesting.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> John: You should also contact the Ubuntu groups, like CoLoCo, and BLUG, at
> least. There
> are about 10 other groups in CO, but I'm not sure how "alive" they are.
>
> We need eyes (web-cameras) if we're going to do this properly, especially the
> Installfest part. Otherwise, it looks like a great idea whose time has come.
>
> I think I can make the web-conference-simulcast happen downtown at Parsec, or I
> can ask
> RMSEL, or my basement can work in a pinch, but I don't think I can, or want to,
> re-arrange my weekend plans to make it happen tomorrow.
>
> Last, a full day every month is going to be too much for me alone. I'll take
> every
> other month or every third month and one or two someone else's can stand up and
> host the
> others.
>
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:16:18 -0700, john_re wrote
> > Hello from Berkeley, CLUEers :)
> >
> > Please tell me - who is in charge in this group?
> >
> > I ask because I'm wondering: who are the person(s) who might be the ones
> > to help arrange & coordinate an inter group meeting?
> >
> > I wonder that, because I'm putting together a great new event, a global
> > GNU(Linux)/BSD type software & free culture meeting.
> >
> > It is a meeting for people interested in learning about, using &
> > creating GNU & BSD type software & culture.
> >
> > I call the local Berkeley meeting the BerkeleyTIP -
> > (Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty)
> >
> > And I call the global simultaneous set of local meetings the
> > Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting.
> >
> > I'm wondering
> > 1) If anyone at your group might be interested in joining together in
> > this event with others around the world, and if so, then
> > 2) who might be the person(s) to head up handling arrangements, &
> > coordination, etc, for the joint meeting?
> >
> > If this sounds to you like it might be interesting, here is some info
> > for you to read:
> >
> > ===== CONTENTS:
> > 1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING
> > 2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR
> > 3) WHAT TO DO NEXT
> > 4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2, SATURDAY
> > FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING?
> > 5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING
> > 6) SUMMARY
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > ===== 1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING =====
> >
> > The basic idea is a monthly meeting, a full day at the beginning of each
> > month, the first Saturday of each month, simultaneous throughout Earth,
> > with these four components:
> >
> > There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of activities:
> > 1) TALKS Talks by various speakers (stream/DL video globally)
> > 2) INSTALLFEST Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux software.
> > 3) POTLUCK Bring food to share or $5: eat, chat (optional)
> > 4) PROGRAMMING PARTY Write SW on your. or a group. project
> >
> > We will have IRC & VOIP communications between the groups, enabling
> > information sharing, & work on development projects, etc. It's like a
> > GNU-Linux user group meeting, on a global scale. Or, it's like a whole
> > earth GNU-Linux user group meeting.
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > ===== 2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR =====
> >
> > I'm doing this in my "spare" part time, as a volunteer effort for the
> > GNU(Linux)/BSD community. By education I'm an electrical engineer (with
> > a bit of computer science). I've been a GNU(Linux) user for about 10
> > years, and a member of San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley LUGs for
> > that long.
> >
> > When I decided to work on doing this, about 2 months ago, I decided to
> > just work slowly, steadily, & build it up a step at a time.
> >
> > So far, we've had two successful local meetings here in Berkeley. A
> > first start up meeting, just to get together & talk & plan. Next month
> > we worked on getting WiFi going at the meeting so it would be easy to
> > share an internet connection for everyone. We also got an IRC channel up
> > which the meeting attendees logged into.
> >
> > Now, this month, I've gotten a Google Groups mailing list & web page for
> > both the local, & global groups. And, I'm now working on sending out
> > the announcement about this meeting, & finding out which people at other
> > groups are interested in this. And I'll try to work to help groups like
> > yours, that have members who are interested in this, get started in
> > getting connected with this meeting.
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > ===== 3) WHAT TO DO NEXT =====
> >
> > So, if anyone there is interested based on what I've said so far, there
> > are several things that could be done:
> >
> > 1) Reply to this email, letting me know what part(s) of this you,
> > personally, are interested in.
> > 2) As part of that, discuss among your local selves if the individuals
> > who are interested would like to work to get a local simultaneous
> > meeting going.
> > 3) Figure out who at your group would lead that effort, or would work on
> > arranging it.
> > 4) Read the Berkeley-TIP-Global website, & join it's mailing list:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
> >
> > The Global group is open to anyone joining - not just the local group
> > leaders. In fact, it is _encouraged_ that everyone interested in the
> > meeting join the list - the input on discussions from everyone
> > interested will benefit everyone else.
> >
> > There is more to know about this event than I can put in this email.
> > I've put much of that information up on the website, so I encourage you
> > to scan or read it over. Hopefully that will answer most of the
> > questions you have. If not, please join that group & post questions,
> > comments & suggestions for improvement to the mailing list.
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > ===== 4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2 =====
> > ===== FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING? =====
> >
> > If anyone in your group is a bit experienced, or up for some fun, you
> > might want to pull a meeting together & join with us tomorrow, Saturday
> > for our first effort to have a multi-site meeting.
> >
> > This month, I'm just focusing on getting the word out to USA groups. I
> > call this month the Global-USA effort. In future months I'll expand it
> > to working to get groups connected from the Americas, Europe, then Asia.
> >
> > It's easy to join in with us -
> > 1) Just find someplace with at least internet capability for IRC (better
> > if it could do VOIP, but that's not necessary for the first meeting) -
> > it could be merely someone's home or apartment, an internet cafe, or a
> > school or office room.
> > 2) Post an announcement to your local list that everyone is invited.
> > 3) Come to your local meeting & get on IRC with us.
> > 4) Download some videos & watch them simultaneously with all the
> > participating groups.
> > 5) Talk about the videos, or whatever, on IRC, or VOIP.
> >
> > That's all there is to it.
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > ===== 5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING =====
> >
> > For this first meeting, tomorrow, Saturday, I've scheduled the following
> > videos to watch (All times Pacific Daylight Savings Time, adjust for
> > local time accordingly.):
> >
> > TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
> >
> > 1000 AM--------------------------------------------------------------
> > Network1: Asterisk VOIP - Sameer Verma
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2148055040572903738
> >
> http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20070628
> > Social: ?
> > 1130 AM--------------------------------------------------------------
> > Network2: Debian - Setup A WiFi Repeater
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKe_jXszFc
> > Prog Lang: Painless Python Part 1 - Alex Martelli
> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDgD9whDfEY
> >
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2008-June/003629.html
> > Database: A Googly MySQL Cluster
> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ930zMk96U
> > 100 PM--------------------------------------------------------------
> > GUIs: ?
> > Distros: git - Linus Torvalds
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737
> > 230 PM--------------------------------------------------------------
> > Business: Web 2.0 startups - David Weekly
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2765503550413131030
> >
> http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20080626
> > Education: Python on the OLPC XO Laptop
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPabiIHgmBU
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > ===== 6) SUMMARY =====
> >
> > Well, that is the basic information.
> >
> > Does this sound interesting to you? Please reply to this email & let me
> > know.
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you. :)
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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>
> -- David
>
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