[volunteers] offlist reply to : [SVLUG-Silicon-Valley-Linux-Users-Group] Venue for Silicon Valley Linux Users Group

[kevin dankwardt]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for all of the info. I did join the volunteers mailing list. I can
post meetings to the meetup as I am made aware of them. Is there a mailing
list for announcements of meetings?

I am asking around about meeting space. Maybe I will find a backup place.

I also have another Linux meetup group: Silicon Valley Linux Technology. I
was thinking that some joint meetings may be valuable. But the SVLT meetups
usually fill the room I can get at Hacker Dojo so inviting any more people
is problematic.

How many people do you usually get at SVLUG meetups?

Best,
Kevin



On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting IrishMASMS (irishmasms at yahoo.com):
>
> > Hey Kevin - Rick (CCed on this email) has been the great SVLUG corraller
> > guy since I moved to the bay area; seems whoever purchased the Meetup
> > dues let it expire. There is the July meeting scheduled, which I just
> > forwarded to the list.
> >
> > Hopefully you two can coordinate the tux love in Silicon Valley.
>
>
> Hi there!  I'm also CCing Mark Weisler, the other guy who helps keep
> SVLUG going.
>
>
> The Meetup group was generously registered by longtime volunteer Tim
> Utschig.  I gather that it must have been a year ago, and that Meetup
> wants renewal money.  I wasn't actually aware of any of this, because I
> personally don't use Meetup.
>
> And, hey, Kevin, we'd be really delighted if you were able and willing
> to renew the Meetup group and become its organiser.
>
> About the Symantec venue:  It was originally negotiated for SVLUG by
> then-President J. Paul Reed after a peevish Google employee named Warren
> Turkal got our meeting space at a Google conference building cancelled.
>
> Kevin, especially since 9/11 with South Bay companies getting very
> restrictive with their public access to meeting space, it's been
> extremely difficult to book good meeting space, especially for free,
> without  significant amounts of inside influence.  You pretty much
> always need to either provide serious funding, or have an inside
> employee 'sponsor' at the company, or both.  In SVLUG's case, we have so
> far arranged a series of inside Symantec-employee sponsors, finding new
> ones when, occasionally, we get blindsided by our sponsor quitting or
> being laid off.
>
> In consequence, we tremendously appreciate people trying to 'find a
> venue' for SVLUG _in case_ we lose Symantec, because it's an excellent
> idea to have a backup plan.  We cannot help noticing that people new to
> the problem space of 'public venue for a tech talk, can't provide funds,
> can't be too obnoxious about security checkin, can't require us to have
> event insurance, can't require us to be a 501(c)(3) charity, can't
> rquire us to have in advance a sponsoring inside employee' frequently
> underestimate the difficulty of negotiating a no-cost suitable venue.
>
> Pretty much every newcomer who ponders the problem suggests Hacker Dojo.
> As Kevin seems to have found out, there are strings attached to holding
> any event at Hacker Dojo, including ones involving funding.
>
> Suggestion:  SVLUG has a public mailing list for core volunteers to
> discuss and arrange SVLUG's internal business, including meeting site
> arrangement.  That would be the best place to discuss all of this, and
> it would be good if you would join it.
>
> http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/volunteers
>
> I'm CCing that mailing list.
>
>
>


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