[svlug] Good try, and suggestions- was: RE: What went wrong? was: Re: Installfest?

[David Fox]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Tony Hartzell <hartzellt at charter.net> wrote:
>   If you try this again, I would suggest that you provide contact info
> for you and any other organizers involved, and display it PROMINENTLY in
> your announcement. Also, get the venue nailed down. I won't attend

I noticed that as well. The announcement lacked a key piece of
information - telephone contacts. Most people carry cell phones -
don't know about John, but maybe it would be a good idea to put a cell
phone # on the announcement to clear up any last minute logistics.
Then again, since John was stuck in traffic, then answering said cell
phone whilst on the freeway might be a moot point.

And I didn't see the announcement on the main buug.org web page. If
it's to be a regular routine thing, it should be there in plain view.
I had to go through the list archives on buug to get to the
announcement - at least on that side, as I had already seen it posted
on svlug.


> server, having learned many administration techniques for Debian,
> Apache, MySQL, PHP and other things that to an expert are obvious, but
> don't occur to me.

I can't speak for Rick or other gurus but Cabal is going to be in a
few days and you just might be able to get some things working there.
And West Menlo Park is closer than Berkeley.

http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/

(and don't forget to trim your posts; all those electrons from
Hollister have better things to do).