[Eug-lug] The Future of EUGLUG

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The volunteers and staff at Computer Reuse and Recycling Center (CRRC) hope
there are be a discussion/commitment to get OSS out to our community
members. We have amble machines to be built, but, we have no support in
place for adopted machines. We need folks with expertise and the ability to
teach in an inclusive way to make OSS adoptions happen.

In the last two and a half years, we have given away over 1450 computers-20
of them were Linux machines. We have sold over 50 Linux machines in our
store, and probably sold 200+ white boxes for Linux installs. This is a SAD
total amount of OSS machines out in our community!

CRRC is moving to a 16,000 sq. ft space soon. All our programs will be
expanded. We are committed to EugLUG. Along with proving EugLUG with free
meeting space that is wireless and accessible, I would love to see EugLUG
make a commitment to build OSS systems for our community members and offer
training on how to use the boxes EugLUG builds.
Free Geek has abandoned the Freekbox build and is using an adapted Ubuntu
install. What could the brilliant minds of EugLUG come up with?

With the new space, we can offer some training opportunities-hopefully Steve
Day is still interested in playing with us!

Hope this perks some interest!
Lorraine
Computer Reuse and Recycling Center

On 7/21/06 6:19 PM, "Mike Cherba" <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> 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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