[clue] Chase Douglas

Tue May 17 14:40:54 MDT 2011

Great soapbox speech, Matt!  I agree with all of it.  I come to Colorado 
originally from Portland/Oregon, where FOSS-type conferences seem to be 
commonplace (during those days, I was still part of the great 
proprietary software conspiracy, not yet enlightened, so I didn't attend 
those great events -- <sigh> Opportunity lost!), and I think it'd be 
great to see that kind of thing here in Denver (center of the continent, 
compromises travel distances for nearly everyone in the US, great 
airplane parking at DIA, etc.).

Yes, face2face always beats video-conf, in my book (I do a lot of both).

I bet we can make this (Chase's visit to the Front Range) happen, and 
I'm willing to help in whatever way I can to make it so.  Count me in.

best regards,
   -- Lorin

On 05/17/2011 01:32 PM, Matt Dew wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 11:52 AM, YES NOPE9 wrote:
>> Chase Douglas sounds like a great idea.
>> Okay.... i am hunched down in case rocks are thrown in my direction.  I suggest we consider setting up a high quality video conferencing link with Chase Douglas.  We could hold it someplace where food and drinks were served.  ( both ends , the CLUE end and the Chase end )   Comments are invited.
>> I imagine that airplane , hotel and food would be $500+.
> 
> I was thinking closer to $1000 (I'm wildly guessing) to be safe.  A 
> chunk of change definitely but in all honesty, I think it would be worth 
> it.
> 
> Allow me to be the first rock thrower. :)
> <me picking up meteor launching howitzer>
> Video conferencing is definitely better than an after-the-fact 
> recording, but it's nowhere near as good as face-to-face in-person.
> 
> The feel is different, the excitement is different, the feeling of 
> belonging to the project is different.  Lorin was curious about how to 
> get involved in larger open source projects.  That feeling of connecting 
> with folks is a big part of that, and that comes much better from 
> face-to-face than a telecon.
> 
> If I may get on a soapbox here....
> 
> We're the Denver LUG.  We are the largest city in this part of the 
> country, a national technical hub (believe it or not), _the_ hub in this 
> part of the country*.   As such, we should have a killer LUG with 
> awesome speakers.  The local guys, such as David, who are gutsy enough 
> to present in front of people, are great. But I also want non-local 
> technical people who are out in the community doing great stuff to 
> present.  The github presentation at BLUG is the perfect exactly.  Next 
> month's Tahoe presentation (CLUE's and BLUG's) is another great example.
> 
> Mike Bean brought up a really good point a while back. Why are there no 
> open source conferences in Denver?  Apparently no one is interested 
> enough to make it happen.  Well, consider this my attempt at helping to 
> make Denver a geek hub that would welcome a linux/OSS conference.
> 
> We raised $90 in one night at CLUE to pay for hosting. and there were 
> only ~12 of us.   You're telling me we can't scrape together enough 
> money over the course of several months to pay for a presentation like this?
> 
> </soapbox>
> 
> 
> *Austin and Phoenix are good too but due to the climate they have a much 
> harder time attracting folks than Denver does.
> 
> 
> Matt
> 
>> 99guspuppet
>>
>>> On May 17, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Lorin Ricker wrote:
>>>
>>> Matt -- Thanks for the initiative on this.  Yes, I'd certainly be
>>> interested in hearing from Chase about Canonical, Ubuntu, etc.  And yes,
>>> I'd be willing to chip in $$, within reason, to support his visit
>>> (things like this don't/can't happen "for free" -- well, maybe the
>>> beer!)  ;-)  Can we put together a reasonable, expected budget for his
>>> expenses, at least something that we can all see to work out "our shares"?
>>>
>>> Good idea, certainly would be a different and valuable sort of
>>> presentation and visit.  Likely could give us all an insider's (expert)
>>> view of working within a large FOSS project/distro, and may help
>>> generate good ideas about how some/all of us might find ways to
>>> participate in such projects.
>>>
>>> Again, thanks for taking the lead on this... even if it doesn't
>>> ultimately work out, it's very much worth considering and acting upon!
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>    -- Lorin
>>>
>>> On 05/17/2011 10:22 AM, Matt Dew wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>    Chase Douglas works for Canonical and is one of the main developers
>>>> of multitouch.  I sent him an email asking if he would be interested in
>>>> coming to Denver to give a presentation this fall.
>>>>
>>>> He's been out of the country and busy so I just got a reply.
>>>>
>>>> He said if he could work it into his schedule he would come out and give
>>>> a presentation.    We'll need to pay for hotel, airfare and food.  (2-3
>>>> days?)
>>>>
>>>> So my question for you guys is:
>>>>    1)  Are people interested in this?
>>>>    1b)  enough to cough up a little money?
>>>>    2)  When? We'll need several dates he could choose from.
>>>>
>>>> If enough people are interested, I'll look into the costs and let people
>>>> know how much it would cost us.  His presentation at XDS (X Developer
>>>> Summit) last fall was very interesting.  The demo at the end was cool.
>>>>
>>>> I think it's worth it, but that's just me.
>>>> Matt
>>>>
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