[mdlug] Officers - Of interest? was- Re: Who's in charge of this group? - Inter group meeting BerkeleyTIP-Global August 2 Saturday

[john_re]

1) Thanks for the info.
2) Hi Officers - is this of interest to you, or your group members?

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officers at mdlug.org

Although it's okay to announce
Linux related events to the list.-

c


-----Original Message-----

From:  "john_re" <john_re at fastmail.us>
Subj:  [mdlug] Who's in charge of this group? - Inter group meeting
BerkeleyTIP-Global August 2 Saturday
Date:  Fri Aug 1, 2008 9:21 am
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To:  mdlug at mdlug.org

Hello from Berkeley, MDLUGers :)

Please tell me - who is in charge in this group?

I ask because I'm wondering: who are the person(s) who might be the ones
to help arrange & coordinate an inter group meeting?

I wonder that, because I'm putting together a great new event, a global
GNU(Linux)/BSD type software & free culture meeting.

It is a meeting for people interested in learning about, using &
creating GNU & BSD type software & culture.

I call the local Berkeley meeting the BerkeleyTIP - 
  (Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty)

And I call the global simultaneous set of local meetings the
Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting.

I'm wondering
1) If anyone at your group might be interested in joining together in
this event with others around the world, and if so, then
2) who might be the person(s) to head up handling arrangements, &
coordination, etc, for the joint meeting?

If this sounds to you like it might be interesting, here is some info
for you to read:

=====  CONTENTS:
1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING
2) WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR
3) WHAT TO DO NEXT
4) JOIN WITH US TOMORROW, AUGUST 2, SATURDAY
   FOR THE FIRST BerkeleyTIP-Global-USA MEETING?
5) VIDEO TALKS FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING
6) SUMMARY

=====================================================================
=====  1) THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE MEETING  =====

The basic idea is a monthly meeting, a full day at the beginning of each
month, the first Saturday of each month, simultaneous throughout Earth,
with these four components:

There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of activities:
1) TALKS        Talks by various speakers (stream/DL video globally)
2) INSTALLFEST  Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux software.
3) POTLUCK      Bring food to share or $5: eat, chat (optional)
4) PROGRAMMING PARTY     Write SW on your. or a group. project

We will have IRC & VOIP communications between the groups, enabling
information sharing, & work on development projects, etc.  It's like a
GNU-Linux user group meeting, on a global scale. Or, it's like a whole
earth GNU-Linux user group meeting.