I'll go through the formalities, but I believe I can offer a room at Watkins for a December Installfest. Our last day of classes is the 9th, so Saturday the 10th suggests itself. An earlier date in December is likely to fit more people's schedules, but the following Saturday the 17th the college is closed and shut down (annual 2-week shutdown.) December 3rd can probably work, as well.
Curt On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just got back from Atlanta a couple of hours ago, but I will be at the > meeting tonight. > > Tonight's topic, alas, will be open forum (they can't all be like last > month, though I'm working to make that the norm, not the exception). Plan > on doing pizza early tonight unless we have some last-second demos or talks. > > Bruce, any chance on a demo of your CHIP computers? > > Business to cover: > > 1) The next meeting is currently scheduled for Nov 8th, ie - election day. > * - Do we want to have the meeting as scheduled? If so, I need someone > to sub for me, as I'll be working at my district's polling station. > * - Do we want to reschedule the meeting? If so, when? > * - Do we want to skip the November meeting and focus on setting up > something big for December's meeting, publicizing, recruiting new > attendees, etc.? > > 2) Installfest: Obviously, ITT is no longer an option; they went out of > business & closed nationally just before last month's meeting, for those > who missed the news. Due to my extensive traveling over the last ~30 days I > haven't been able to lock down a replacement site. I'd like 30 days minimum > to promote it once a date is set & even if we had a space confirmed this > weekend, we'll be into the holiday season mayhem by this time next month. > Add in the current uncertainty about the Nov meeting mentioned above, and I > propose we set a tentative date of January 21st, 2017, location TBD. That > gives us time to plan, advertise, seek a sponsor or three, etc. > > 3) The NLUG mailing list has 395 members. It looks like ~50 of those > addresses have been bouncing for a while. I'd like to nuke them & put > together a list of valid addresses & members. I'd then like to encourage > members to introduce themselves on the list, talk about their skills & > experiences wrt Linux/FOSS, and what they'd like to see from NLUG going > forward, both at meetings and other possible events. We have a large talent > pool with a long history in Middle Tennessee (and beyond); I think we can > do more with what we've got than we have been up to now. > > 4) Out Meetup group ( https://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Linux-Users-Group/ > ) currently has 432 members. It looks like more than half of the them > aren't on NLUG list. We seem to have two fragmented communities at the > moment. Thoughts on unifying them? > > 5) Regaining our non-profit status, and the benefits that come from it: > Looks like it'll run ~$750. Alternatives are to start over as a new > non-profit, which would be cheaper, but we'd lose the "NLUG" name. > > 6) Promotion & advertising: We have facebook and twitter accounts. We also > have github and linked-in accounts (via Adrew - note to self: get details). > We should use them. > > 7) "New website" - Andrew was handling this, but he should probably hand > it off to one of us so we can get it up and running, rather than having > NLUG.org redirect to our Meetup.com page (which will need to be renewed for > an additional three months next month, IIRC; Andrew has details on that as > well). > > 8) In the spring & especially over the summer I was doing an increasing > amount of NLUG-related work for Andrew. I'll probably be sticking close to > home 'til the end of the year, but I could definitely use a backup > ("Assistant VP"?). This would need to be someone we can trust with logins & > passwords. > > Discuss. > > ~~Dru > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
