[Speakers] BAFUG interested in speaker pool

[Ian Kluft]

>From: Joyce Cao Traugott <joyce at terraluna.org>
>Steve is still out of town right now.  I hope you are not just waiting for his
>reply.  He likes the idea of having others to participate in finding the
>speakers, so the speaker coordinator doesn't have to be himself.
>
>I personally think subdomain speakers.sbay.org is good enough, no need to
>register another domain.

Yes, I have been waiting to hear from Steve and Marc.  I don't want to
proceed without making sure this doesn't step on their toes.  Not to
mention, we can't move/reconfigure the mail list without their help.

>Ian Kluft wrote:
>> Elliott Chuang (pronounced like Chung), coordinator of the Bay Area FreeBSD
>> User Group (BAFUG) cited the ability to cooperate on speakers as a big draw
>> for BAFUG joining as a SIG of sbay.org.  (Above the kernel level, Linux and
>> the *BSDs run the same software.  So for non-kernel software talks, we're
>> interested in most of the same topics.)  And we already have participation
>> from PenLUG and LUGoD on the speakers list.
>>
>> I'd like to float the idea of either moving the speakers list to sbay.org
>> or create a new domain for it.  The thought behind that is to be inclusive
>> of the BSD folks, to make it an Open Source groups effort and not just
>> Linux-specific.
>>
>> I'd like to find something less of a mouthful than the Silicon Valley
>> Open Source Speaker Coordinators, but that's the idea.  Maybe do like
>> sbay.org and just call it by a domain name.  svspeakers.org isn't taken.
>> Or it would be trivial (and free) to create a subdomain speakers.sbay.org.
>>
>> Actually, no one asked me to do this.  Elliott was often mixing up sbay.org
>> and SVLUG while promoting the idea to his group to join sbay.org.  So the
>> affiliation with Linux groups obviously is not an issue.  But now that
>> BAFUG has stuck their neck out to join with us, I'd like to make an effort
>> to welcome and include them as equals.  I'd like to make sure this works
>> for all of us for the long term.
>>
>> Any thoughts or comments?
>>
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