[conspire] (forw) BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2023-06-20 & other BALUG News

[Rick Moen]

Tonight.

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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:59:19 -0700
From: Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
To: "Berkeley Linux Users Group (BerkeleyLUG)" <berkeleylug at googlegroups.com>
Subject: BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2023-06-20 & other BALUG News

BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2023-06-20 & other BALUG News

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items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2023-06-20
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...

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For our 2023-06-20 (3rd Tuesdays) BALUG meeting, we have:

At least at the time of this updated we don't have a specific
speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, however that doesn't
prevent us from having exciting interesting conversations.  Sometimes
we have last minute speaker/presenters show up, or will often have
useful interesting conversations without any pre-arranged topic.
Perhaps something you'd like to bring up at or to the meeting?
Something to show, or ask about? Maybe we'll talk about one or more of
many topics that have recently gone around with some BALUG members or
other local LUGs or their lists, e.g. Debian 12 Bookworm, towards
virtualization of linuxmafia.com, local ISPs, SVLUG domains & history;
registrars, starting and sustaining LUGs, meeting locations; what's up
with Twitter, Reddit, ...; Cloud and un-Clouding, ...

    6:00pm Tuesday, June 20th, 2023 2023-06-20

    In-person:
    Henry's Hunan Restaurant
    110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
    1-415-546-4999
    https://www.hhunan.com/ https://www.hhunannatoma.com/
    Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
    Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
       Trip planning:  http://www.511.org/

    Virtual:
    https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org Dial-in numbers also available at the
    URL.
    Please use earbud(s)/headphone(s) or mute yourself to avoid audio
    feedback issues, also please if you have background sound/noise
    issues mute yourself when not talking.
    Generally works quite fine with reasonably modern Firefox
    Chrome/Chromium, Microsoft Edge, possibly others (requires WebRTC
    https://webrtc.org/
    (Wikipedia: WebRTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC)
    (can also do some testing here: https://test.webrtc.org/ Probably
    don't worry about minor items like "Reflexive connectivity" )), from
    desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.

Meeting Details...

Cost/Dining:
     The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
     guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner).  For
     Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
     dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
     person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
     complementary tea) would be in the $15.00 to $31.00 range, and
     commonly around $18.00 to $27.00.  Cash preferred to ease splitting
     up the check.  One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
     needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
     commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
     considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Punctual arrival
     recommended for optimal dining experience, as we expect to be
     ordering at that time.
     At approximately 7:00 P.M. we start our presentation/talk, or more
     informal talk/discussion if we don't have a particularly
     presentation/talk/presenter or special guest arranged.

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giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...

We often have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings.

CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of USB flash, blank or +-RW media, or funding thereof,
also appreciated.  See the above URL for details.  If you're interested
in anything in particular, best to request such reasonably in advance
(may not schlep the inventory or portion(s) thereof, or have some
particular ISO burned and available in quantity >0 if it's not requested
in advance)

Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally?  We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_etc

Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications

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help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...

You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.

Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG.  Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact at balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
   on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
     quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
     (also feel free to suggest ideas!)

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Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org

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