[SoCoSA/discuss] [SoCoSA/notify] Meeting: SoCoSA's future: tonight

[Eric Landerville]

I will be unable to come to the meeting tonight (little to short term) 
but I would like to keep SOCOSA going.

As to the talks, what happened to the guy who volunteered to give the 
Asterisk talk(s)?

Lastly there is something that has been on my mind for a while now that 
I wanted to bring up at a meeting at some point.  The group, while 
called systems admins is very Linux centric.  There are a lot of windows 
admins out there and most just aren't interested in Linux if they are 
they go to NBLUG and hide their Microsoft stuff.  I deal with it every 
day, of the 8 members of my team I'm the only one who does anything 
Linux.  I honestly think that if we want to get a wider more diverse 
group the talks should be wider and more diverse.  Just my $.02.

Eric (not Eisenhart)

SoCoSA notifications and reminders, primarily of events wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Meeting: tonight, 6pm-8:30pm.
> Topic: SoCoSA's future
>
> Do you want SoCoSA to continue?  interested in helping out?  show up...
>
> If you can't make it tonight but are interested in keeping the group going,
> please speak up on the discuss list...
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at socosa.org> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:26:55 -0700
> From: Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at socosa.org>
> To: steering at socosa.org
> Subject: [SoCoSA/steering] Plan to try to get group going again
>
> Plan to get group going again:
>
> 1) Send out general plea/announcement to notify and discuss.  Inviting
>    discussion on the list, etc.
> 2) Have SoCoSA meeting at O'Reilly on December 2nd (tonight doesn't work for
>    obvious reasons, and November's meeting would be on Election Day) with a
>    topic something like "How to keep SoCoSA going"
>
> Actual goal: getting somebody else to run the group.  :)  Or at least get
> somebody else to find speakers...  The current board just doesn't have the
> energy to find a good speaker every month.
>
> One possibility we should consider: folding in as a "special interest" group
> for NBLUG.  Become a "sysadmin subcommittee" of NBLUG's board responsible
> for scheduling every 4th meeting, or something like that.  (details would be
> worked out with the NBLUG board)
>
> There was some discussion a couple months ago from somebody interested in
> talking...  Maybe we can recruit him.  Or at least use that to get talks
> lined up for the first quarter of 2009.
>
> Thoughts, anybody?  I'm hoping to send something to the group at large in
> the next couple of days...
>