[svlug] svlug election stuff - next community directions

[Lord Sauron]

On Monday 18 September 2006 19:24, Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya
>
> - i'm just rattling the "community" cage ..
>
> - is anybody else running for Pres/VP of svlug ??

Can't even vote yet ; )

> 	paul/mark is the only ones that have announced it
>
> - personally, i think it would be fun to have somebody
>   from china/russia/europe be the pres/vp of svlug
>   since svlug is a community effort and not everybody is local

I'm from the planet Geidi Prime.  Is that "new" enough for you?

> - what i could find about Pres/VP stuff
>
> 	http://svlug.org/cgi-bin/stv/svlug-pres-term-2004
>
> 	- somebody needs to update that voting script to take the
> 	voting since the folks at sbay.org is not here this time around
> 	to do the voting and tallying

If you don't mind some random teenager looking at it, I know PHP 
(assuming it's PHP - CGI just confuses me).

> - i do not know why there is no searchable svlug archives
>   for "officer's duties" and functions and responsibilities and
>   description etc
>
> 	- i know it all existed at one time

I know some tools that allow for an easy Google search of any data.

> 	-- what new features does the community want to see happen ??

Perhaps a wiki?  Some kind of a synopsis page for each user (only a few 
things, like fav. distro, etc).

> 	-- who else wants to get tehir fingers dirty and/or get
> 	iut cut off along the way and sew'n back on and know a
> 	few more geeky tricks for your next interview

I'm always willing to take a look and see if I can spare enough time to 
work on a project.

> 	- we also have a (real) colo that will host the existing server
> 	at no charge .... not xxx hosting from yyy hosting from zzz
> 	who has the real cabinet at a real colo

If ever necessary, I should be getting a static ip and legality to host 
sometime soon.  I could host a mirror/backup server if necessary.

> 	- paul/micah/rick is working on the virtual server but it's
> 	not quite ready yet
>
> 	- if you previously had an svlug acct, you will need to get me
> 	your ip# if you want access to the machine since i turned
> 	on tcp-wrappers ( hosts.allow and denying all:all )

On behalf of those like me who've reaped the benefits of the SVLUG but 
haven't yet contributed much, thanks for ALL your work.  You make Linux 
really quite fun!

-- 
http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/
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