It’s the best turnout we’ve had in years.It’s sad when 5 people
attending are the best you can show. Thanks to Kelly for hosting at
Altera, and to Walt, Bruce, and Ed for attending. It was sort of like
old homecoming week, given that four of us have worked together at
various times in the past.
We did discuss the concept of topics for future meetings, as well as to
how we can increase the attendance. Any suggestions are welcome if you
wish to post to the topics forum.
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Congratulations to Kelly.
He received the first O’Reilly book that was being given out. He is now the proud owner of Using Samba, and hopefully he will post a review on the site after he reads up on the topic.
Next month, there will be another book on the table. For those interested, the meeting conversation included site monitoring, ecommerce, and burn out.
Scott
UPDATE - The mailing list software has been broken for quite some time.
I was completely unaware for a while, that shows the activity it wasn’t getting. I have decided not to revive the mailman based system, but to add a new one. Hopefully it will integrate into this system a little better.As some/most of you know by now, I have installed mailman on the web server. You can sign up for announcements at http://www.ovsage.org/mailman
This area is for the proposal of topics for future meetings.If anyone has any ideas for meetings, please post them here. If you have something you want to present, please feel free to volunteer to do so.
It would be a good idea to post meeting ideas individually as new topics, so we can have a separate running commentary on each topic. Once we get a few on the go, we can have a vote on what we want to see when.