[sf-lug] LUGs at SCALE

[jim]

Thanks, Larry, 
    Let me know the logistics of getting any 
Felton LUG printed material down there. I'll 
pay attention to the Felton LUG mail. 
    Either email address is fine: 
jim at well.com 
or 
jim at systemateka.com 




On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 10:24 -0800, Larry Cafiero wrote:
> Jim --
> 
> "There's a possibility" is probably taking it too lightly. You should
> say, "there's a good chance." :-)
> 
> Felton LUG would gladly provide some materials for a table, and while
> I'll be at SCALE 12X, my time will be limited because I'm "working" at
> the show as the publicity chairperson. I think it's a fantastic idea
> to have a table there, as many of the 2,000 or so attendees at SCALE
> come from Northern California.
> 
> I will post this to the Felton LUG list, and feel free to send me an
> e-mail off-list with an address you'd like to use, and I'll put you on
> the Felton LUG e-mail list (as an aside, we are hosting a
> reorganizational meeting on Saturday). That also goes for anyone else
> on the SF-LUG list who would like to keep abreast of what we're doing
> in Felton.
> 
> Meanwhile, whether or not you spend time at the booth Jim is
> organizing (and you should), I hope you all consider visiting SCALE
> 12X on Feb. 21-23 -- it's the first-of-the-year Linux/FOSS expo in
> North America, and it's the largest community-run Linux/FOSS show on
> the North American continent, hosting about 100 exhibitors and about
> 90 speakers over the three-day period.
> 
> Larry Cafiero (writing in his capacity as Felton LUG organizer and
> SCALE 12X publicity chair)
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:58 AM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
> >
> > Regarding
> > Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)
> > Friday, February 21, through Sunday, February 23
> > Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel
> > https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x
> >
> > There is a possibility that SCALE will support a general LUG
> > table/booth.
> >
> > This depends on sufficient interest among the LUG community to staff the
> > table/booth. I've taken on the responsibility for querying the greater
> > SF bay area LUGs. The organizers say there is some interest from
> > Southern California LUGs.
> >
> > The most important thing, assuming there will be such a booth, is that
> > it has printed, take-away information about LUGs. I'm hoping we'll have
> > a map showing locations of northern California LUGs and a companion list
> > of LUG web sites.
> >
> > If you are planning to attend SCALE, please let me know if
> > * you are willing to help staff a LUG booth (this entails
> >   being there for a couplel of hours at a time and maybe
> >   smiling and waving, perhaps explaining what LUGs are
> >   about or, more likely, what your LUG is about. In Linux
> >   World expos there was a regular stream of people with
> >   interesting comments and queries.
> > * you can provide printed information about your LUG that
> >   someone can take down for the table/booth (I can drive
> >   things down there).
> > * you can suggest contacting some LUG or Linux-related
> >   group that is not on the list of groups to which I'm
> >   sending this email (see below).
> >
> > I'm hoping to be able to reply "yay" or "nay" to the SCALE organizers by
> > the end of this week.
> >
> > Hopefully, wtih thanks,
> > jim (member of SF-LUG and BALUG)
> >
> >
> > List of LUGs and related groups
> >
> > BAD Bay Area Debian (SF and east bay -- I'm not subscribed to this mail
> > list)
> > Felton Linux Group (I'm not subscribed to this mail list)
> >
> > BALUG (SF),
> > BerkeleyLUG,
> > BUUG (berkeley)
> > Conspire-LinuxMafia (peninsula),
> > DVLUG (Walnut Creek-Concord),
> > LinuxChix,
> > LUGOD (Davis),
> > NBLUG (Sebastapol),
> > OpenHatch,
> > OLPC-SF (One Laptop Per Child SF),
> > SF-LUG,
> > SVLUG (peninsula),
> >
> > bayPIGgies,
> > py4science
> >
> >
> >
> >
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