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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/2013 10:46 PM, Justin Smith
wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I don't care for baseball or the
Pirates, myself, but if it's something the members would be
interested in, I'm all for it.<br>
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It's so cheap, I may do it (out of my own pocket, if necessary),
regardless of whether there's active member interest expressed in
advance - as long as the Board or the program committee approve
putting WPLUG's name on the event. I mean, in the end, it may cost
$20.00, as long as the tickets are surcharge-free if picked up in
person (which I can do). I think 12 tickets would be sufficient,
and in fact I'm not sure you can buy more tickets than that in a
block from the retail web site. (You're probably not alone among
our membership in not caring for baseball or the Pirates, so I'm not
thinking the small number of tickets is a bottleneck.)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> <i>If</i> we do this, I'd like to
work this into our advertising like I tried to do for January's
GUM. We could say something like "How much do baseball tickets
and stadium food usually cost? Join WPLUG and get free tickets
to the game, free food, <i>and</i> a membership in the hottest
Linux user group in Pittsburgh!"<br>
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Sure (just keeping in mind the food wouldn't be on WPLUG, but $1.00
for a hot dog ... can't beat that).<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> If we're ever going to get more
paying members, we need to run promotions like this from time to
time.<br>
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Totally agree.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> In regard to the presentation...like
Joe said, we need a presenter for February, so feel free to
proceed. Say, do you know anything about OpenVPN, Pat? Since
certificates are a part of it, maybe you could include that as
part of your presentation. Lots of people use free public Wi-Fi;
you could make it about how to protect against eavesdropping
while you're doing it with OpenVPN on Linux <i>and</i> Android.<br>
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I know just a little about OpenVPN, per se - but I certainly know
about VPN infrastructures in general. I would be concerned that
"Private CA + OpenVPN" is starting to get into a fairly lengthy
presentation (in order to do justice to the presentation of either
of them individually), it might be smart to break that material over
two GUMs. For a group like WPLUG, I'd kind of prefer to keep "sit
and listen to me" presentations to about 30 minutes or so if
possible, unless there's a demo involved or something.<br>
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--Pat.<br>
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