[Speakers] BAFUG interested in speaker pool

[stevegt@TerraLuna.Org]

Ossb.org (open source speakers bureau) is available.  

Re: moving the list -- we'd need to also do other work.  The problem is,
we still need a way to coordinate, among interested LUG members, who the
speaker will be for each LUG for each month.  The protocol we have right
now for the speakers list takes care of that, but won't work for a truly
shared list.  If anyone wants to enhance the protocol (maybe by
prepending a group name to the CONFIRMED subject etc.), then the list
might be more movable and sharable.  But next we'll have volume
problems.

What I'd really like to see is a CGI to handle votes on speakers as well
as confirmations, generate RSS so that groups can populate their web
pages, etc.  The SVLUG speakers data flow right now is horribly broken;
after confirmation, Joyce digs the talk and bio out of the speakers list
archives, manually edits the SVLUG home page, and manually edits the
meetings page.  Then I later manually cut and paste Joyce's text from
the web page into an XML document, which I then run a Perl script
against to generate the monthly announcement mail.  Then Margaret
manually extracts from that email text to notify the Merc.  Then I later
go back and edit the mail to add the REMINDER tag on the subject and
resend it the day before the meeting.  Way too much manual repetition in
there, every month.   And I usually forget to do my parts early enough.
We can't even cron any of this in the state it's in right now.

I keep threatening to automate large chunks of the process, and the XML
code was a start.  It would be worth doing if we were doing something
with a much wider audience, and the amount of work would be about the
same -- I'd go ahead and make it global.

Steve


On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:49:02AM -0700, Ian Kluft wrote:
> >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?
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakers mailing list
> >> Speakers at lists.svlug.org
> >> http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers
> >
> 

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Steve Traugott  (KG6HDQ)
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