[lug] BLUG administration in 2001

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:17:33AM -0700, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> >It is time to start thinking about BLUG activities in 2001.  Any
> >suggestions or changes?  Should we think about establishing a more clearly

Only one reply?  Isn't there any interest in discussing what the BLUG
should do in 2001?  At this level of interest, I'm wondering if we should
keep the group going or not?

> In general I think the current format works very well.  I don't know that
> it needs much in the way of changing as far as the processes go.

I'm pretty comfortable with the way things are working too.  However, I
wanted to give the group a chance to get involved and help decide where we
are going.  If everyone is happy about the operation of the BLUG that's
great.  If not, hey ... nothing will change if you don't say anything.

>  I have often wondered wether it would make sense to off-load some of
> the tasks you've been gracious enough to do.

For the most part, I just make certain we have a meeting room and a
speaker.  I also serve as the general point of contact for people trying
to contact the BLUG.  I probably need to remain involved with scheduling
the room as long as we continue to meet at NIST.  Beyond that, if someone
wants to take over the job of locating and scheduling presentations that
would be fine with me.

As far as the other behind the scenes activities of the BLUG go, let's
see.  Sean and folks at tummy.com host and maintain the BLUG domain,
mailing list, and webserver.  Sean also helps with the day-to-day
administration of the list server.  Kyle Moore is our web master, and
Michael Pedersen is working on setting up a public key server for the
group.

Anyone who wants to help with any of these things just needs to get in
touch with us.  You do need to have an idea about what it is you want to
contribute though.  Waiting for one of us to figure out what we think you
should do is a slow process <grin>.

> There always seems to be interest in an install-fest.  People who miss one
> are often anxious for the next one to happen.  ;-)

Indeed!  The question is, who wants to be the champion for any of these
activities?  It is really up to the group if they want to put this, or any
other activity together.

> Perhaps the best way to approach this would be to have a section of
> the web-site which includes a list of tasks, their champion, and when
> they are next scheduled to happen (if they are scheduled).  I'd
> volunter to implement that.  Then perhaps at every meeting go through
> them and see if anyone is interested in championing them.

This might be worth a try.  However, we still need to figure out what
"tasks" the group wants to take on this year.  Some things that will be
coming up are:

   - Install Fests?

   - What ever happened to the joint mini-expos in association with
     the CU Buffalo Chip store?

   - The Colorado Linux Info Quest <http://www.thecliq.org/>
   
   - The 3rd Annual Total Technology Expo in Denver
     (We've been asked to participate)

We definitely need to have a presence at the the CLIQ event.  So far, I
think I've always resisted the Total Tech Expo.  I believe that Dave
Outeridge headed up a committee to look into putting a booth in this event
several years ago, and we decided not to then.  It might be time for us to
take another look now?  We did do a booth at the Denver Computer Tech 
Showcase last year.  

There are certainly other things we could do too including some research
projects.  It is really up to the group.

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)