[sf-lug] BALUG: meeting TODAY!: Tu 2024-02-20 & other BALUG News

[Michael Paoli]

BALUG: meeting TODAY!: Tu 2024-02-20 & other BALUG News

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items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting TODAY!: Tu 2024-02-20 & other BALUG News
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...

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For our 2024-02-20 (3rd Tuesdays) BALUG meeting, we have:

Don't have specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting at
least at the time of this update, but that doesn't prevent us from
having interesting and exciting conversations! Sometimes we even come
up with a speaker/presentation at the last minute. Or, of course,
always feel free to bring questions/topics you may want to ask about or
have discussed.

Also, I've got a probable scheduling conflict, so I may not be able to
make the meeting or may not be able to make all of it.  So, if you're at
restaurant and don't see BALUG sign, may wan to make one up so others 
can
find you.

     6:00pm Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 2024-02-20

     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