[Speakers] IBM researcher "Sysadmins Are Users Too!"

[Ian Kluft]

>From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward)
>Ian Kluft writes:
>>And October 1 to Peter Thoeny for TWiki?  (If not, pick the next available
>>month.  They're all unreserved after that.)
>
>If October 1 is available can we give it to the Oracle guys?  They
>requested it some time back, but Don didn't reserve the slot at that
>time.

Oops.  That's juggling for you...  I forgot that Oracle was also a
waiting request.

Peter hasn't had a chance to respond yet.  Whichever speaker responds
first that the date will work for them can have Oct 1.  Otherwise
any other meeting date beyond that is available.

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>>A bunch of us are getting used to the protocol on the speakers list after
>>Steve opened it up to wider membership (and turned the speaker coordination
>>into a committee just before his daughter was born.)  Ani definitely got the
>>"CONFIRMED" message up for August - no need to worry there.
>
>I don't think I'm getting all the messages.  I haven't seen this
>protocol.  Where is it defined?

It was on the subscription page... :-)
   http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers

As a subscriber to speakers at svlug.org, you can use this protocol to
confirm speakers yourself.  We're all getting used to this.  Steve set
it up last week before his daughter was born and he needed to turn
speakers at svlug.org into a committee.

Check the mail list archive to verify that no one else has confirmed a
speaker for a given month yet.  Then if you're the first to send a
message titled like "CONFIRMED Month Year -- Speaker Name" then you
locked it in.  Just make sure the speaker has confirmed it in their
own schedule before you do that.