[Speakers] SVLUG Speakers list protocol extension: PROPOSED messages

[stevegt@TerraLuna.Org]

Hi All!

First, I want to congratulate you all.  Opening up the speakers list and
turning the Speaker Coordinator's job into a "Program Committee" of
sorts seems to be working -- we're booked until November.  

I suppose this should not have been a surprise; all we've done is
open source (open org?) the coordination of speakers.  

Now that we have a comfortable cushion in the schedule, and to address a
hole in the protocol, I've added a PROPOSED phase; see the three
PROPOSED paragraphs in http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers.

In a nutshell, this adds an RFD-like discussion phase and helps people
understand how they gain the authority to schedule speakers.  This might
have prevented Paul's uncertainty (below), for example.

Paul, if you haven't figured it out yet, because you joined the speakers
list, you *are* the contact.  ;-)  Go read the PROPOSED paragraphs in
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers, and execute; you might
be the first person to test the new protocol version.

Steve


On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:47:41AM -0700, Paul Cubbage wrote:
> Don,
> I've been trying to line up a talk by Rob Barrett of IBM Research titled 
> "Sysadmins Are Users Too" see 
> http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/abstracts/02-03/030530-barrett.html and
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/barrett/
> Are you the contact?  I'll be at svlug tonight.
> 
> I don't know if you care but I have 1.0 versions of Caldera Open Linux 
> and Caldera Network Desktop that you can have if you are doing research.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Cubbage
> 
> "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than 
> cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." H.L. Mencken
> 
> 
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Steve Traugott  (KG6HDQ)
Speaker Coordinator, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
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