[svlug] ISSUE: SVLUG's continued status with SBAY

[John Mark Walker]

Jennifer Davis wrote:
> Intentional, Blatant, Subject Change. (not very subtle. Hint. Hint.)
>
> The Linux Picnic planning is starting up.  Sign up for the mailing list if 
> you are interested in volunteering. I'm still waiting on hearing about the 
> tshirt sponsorship, but we are going to start gearing up for the craziness 
> that is the picnic with the hope that we will do a little bit better than 
> last year.  It was incredibly fun last year.. and all the groups that were 
> involved really added to the event.
>   

As the LinuxWorld conference director, I would like to make a very 
special request - would you be interested in hosting this event in the 
Yerba Buena area outside of Moscone at the same time as LinuxWorld? I 
think it would be a very nice event. IDG World Expo has already 
indicated to me that they would wholeheartedly commit resources for 
this. Let me know if you're interested. We were thinking of having our 
own 15th anniversary event, and then I informed them of the annual 
picnix stuff, and they were intrigued.

And as a general inquiry, I'd like to extend an invitation to work more 
closely with SVLUG (and BALUG, PenLUG, and BayLISA) on LinuxWorld. Part 
of my job is to do a better job of outreach with various communities, 
including LUG's, developers, and sysadmins. I'd like to continue this 
discussion in an open-ended way.

I'm currently in the Portland airport waiting for my plane to land so I 
can board. By the way, the stuff going on in Oregon is freaking 
incredible. Way more than I expected, even though I knew a fair bit of 
what's happening. I'd love to share my Oregon enthusiasm with all of you 
if I ever get a chance ;)

-JM