[Eug-lug] The Future of EUGLUG

[Ben Barrett]

Agreed -- we need some fresh blood on oureach, please.  Not that I want to
stop doing it by any means, I've just become somewhat out-of-touch from our
meetings and such.

As for "official nonprofit status", the last time this was brought up, it
was put down quickly due to the attainment of 501(3)(c) costing $500-$1500
(or more, if not done carefully).
I have been making some new friends with attorneys and will ask, but it is
not simple and I think the group should look to fund-raise the money to get
it done, unless we have an angel on the li$t :)

I agree with the 3-pronged approach (social/outreach/education).

As for servers, it makes little difference to me, so whoever gets to have
their hands on the stuff, have fun and please continue to have the group's
best interest in mind.
I would like to see some new software on the server at some point though,
maybe in a "beta-testers" xen domain or something -- Zimbra for one is
operational :)

As for more mailing lists, we had other ones which are ALMOST dead (please
don't pull comparts though there is a big tux in the works!).... if you
think we need more lists, why haven't you been using the other ones we
have?  Fickle?  Yeah, me too :)  ;)
I don't mind more mailing lists though, not at all.

thanks for your time!

    Ben


On 7/22/06, LinuxRocks! <linux at rocksolidnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Well... I thing we should be more involved in promotion, for the last
> several years, pat,ed,ben, and myself seem to be the only people in the
> group doing any events. We used to do more (eugene celebration, computer
> expo, one day linux events,...
> Weekly clinics really used to be about being available to help folks
> install and use linux, but now are more about socializing, than helping
> others, which is ok, but not ideal. It would help if we did some
> promotion on our weekly clinics so folks new they could get help if they
> needed it, or just come by and learn some of the groovy stuff we do with
> linux.
>
> eug-lug commitments? ugh. I wish to make no commitments.
>
> Mailing list suggestions: NO MORE MAILINGLISTS!!! we have enough.
>
> Jamie
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:19:10PM -0700, Mike Cherba wrote:
> > From: Mike Cherba <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com>
> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:19:10 -0700
> > X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4
> > Subject: [Eug-lug] The Future of EUGLUG
> >
> > All,
> >       As promised, I am sending out a summary of our discussion of last
> > nights meeting.  I will send out another email following this one with
> > questions specific to ensuring we serve the needs of our mailinglist
> > members.  I apologize for the length of this mail, but we covered a LOT
> > of important topics in our 2 hours last night.  Lets discuss these on
> > the mail list and meet back in August to take the final votes about what
> > to do.
> >                       -Mike
> >
> >
> > EUGLUG MEETING 07/20/06
> > --------------------------
> > Main Topics of discussion:
> >
> > 1.) What do people want to get out of EUGLUG?
> > Basically, people seemed to agree that our group has 3 primary
> > functions. Those are (in no particular order) Socializing, Outreach, and
> > Education.  While we have been doing fairly well at the Social aspect,
> > we have been failing in the latter 2.
> >
> > What do you see as the mission of EUGLUG?  What priorities shoudl the
> > group have?
> >
> > 2.) Should EUGLUG adopt a more formal Organization.  Offical
> > Nonprofit/All Volunteer status.  Real group identity in order to be able
> > to handle arranging/participating in more community outreach/Education.
> >
> > We heard voices on both side from this one.  The main points being "If
> > we want to be able to handle money in order to pay for things for the
> > group we need an offical organization." and "There are ways around all
> > needing any offical organization for anything.  People who want things
> > to happen should just step up"
> >
> > Please weigh in and let us know what you think.
> >
> > 3.) CLasses/Lectures
> > Everyone seemed to agree that More classes/Lectures were a good idea.
> > I've listed some of the topics we came up with below.
> >
> > If you see a topic below that you would be willing to speak about please
> > respond to me off list and we can talk about when works best.  If you
> > have another suggestion please add it to the list.
> >
> >       - introduction to OSS for Windows/MAC
> >       - VMware
> >       - Cygwin
> >       - Mingw
> >       - postgres
> >       - apache/apache2
> >       - Ubuntu
> >       - Jango
> >       - Bash / Shell programming
> >       - Basic C Programming
> >       - finding and installin Linux Apps under various Distros
> >       - Kernel Internals/Structure
> >       - TEX/LaTEX
> >
> >
> > 4.) Commitment to EUGLUG.
> > What are people willing to commit to contributing to EUGLUG?  Time?
> > Money?  If we get 10 people who are willing to give 1 hr per month
> > outside of meetings we can accomplish quite a bit.  If we want to do
> > things like bring in new members, arrange installfests, etc we need time
> > and energy from our members.
> >
> > What level of commitment are you willing to give to EUGLUG outside of
> > meetings?  1hr per month? 2-5hrs?  Let us know.
> >
> > 5.) Outreach opportunities.
> > If we want EUGLUG to grow and prosper as a group we need to get people
> > of all different knowledge levels involved.  We also need to let the
> > public at large know about what we are doing so they can participate.
> >
> > Which of suggestions below, if any, do you think EUGLUG should pursue?
> >       - Joint presentations with other groups.  IE Linux in astronomy
> >         with the Astronomy club, or Linux in Ham radio with the Ham
> >         radio club.
> >       - Getting involved with LCC or U of O student body.  Host/offer
> >         involvement in Open Source projects? (suggestions for projects
> >         are definately welcome!)
> >       - The same with area high schools?
> >       - Free/OSS software clinics with/through CRRC?
> >       - Suggestions are very welcome.  There were a couple more last
> >         night, but I apparently didn't write them down.
> >
> > 6.) Website/server suggestions
> > As many of you are no doubt already aware, EUGLUG has a new server which
> > is being prepared to allow Tux a graceful retirement. (Largely thanks to
> > Larry's Efforts.  Thanks Larry!)  While step number 1 is to get the
> > current site ported over there have been many suggestions for other
> > website improvements.
> >
> > Which of the follwoing ideas do you think EUGLUG should pursue?  Which
> > would you be willing to contribute time to working on?
> >       - Weekly email with all EUGLUG related activities. (meeting
> >         reminders etc.)
> >       - Additional mailing list to seperate meeting related traffic
> >         from general Linux help?
> >       - Any other suggestions?  I think there were a few more ideas,
> >         but again I got to involved in the discussion and forgot to
> >         take notes.
> >
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