[wplug-plan] Trying to reserve HackPittsburgh for WPLUG

[Charles Butler]

Even if we don't have a presentation aligned for the meeting,
we have a pretty sweet maker space available to us at
HackPGH - and could feesably do an open project hacking session.

I've been kicking around the idea of bringing down the clementine
box (a self-contained armhf v7 powered compute cluster) down and
seeing if anyone has interesting workloads to toss on it. It's also
a nice tool for learning about distributed systems architecture on
limited hardware. (it's like trying to run Hadoop on a pocket watch...)

Part of maintaining a community is also around being flexible, and
staying relevant with their interests. Linux has evolved a lot in the last
decade, as has the user/contributor base. Seeing Linux in the wild is
becoming more common place than it ever was before, which I think
contributes to the divergence of LUG's and specific development groups
(like PGHRB) a larger spike in general interest groups (like C&S)

/my 2 cents


Charles Butler <charles.butler at canonical.com> - Juju Charmer
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Brian Sammon <
wplug-plan-list at brisammon.fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:33:37 -0400
> Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:
>
> > Second Saturdays are fine with me too.  And I second that emotion,
> > regarding advance notice...  But to get advance notice, we need to more
> > aggressively plan in advance.  Some folks may recall that I've been
> > agitating for a long time (i.e., you're probably sick of hearing this
> > from me...  ;-) ) to have firm event plans at least one event cycle
>
> Keep in mind though, (while it is nice) you don't need to have everything
> 100% nailed down to send out advanced notice.  The only things that are
> really necessary are a room reservation and someone to open the
> door/welcome people.
>
> If you decide that 2 weeks advance notice is the goal, and not everything
> is nailed down by the 2 week deadline, I think it would be acceptable to
> send out a 2-weeks-advance announcement saying something like "There will
> be a WPLUG meeting on xxx 00, 2015.  Details of the presentation are still
> being worked out" or whatever details you have confirmed by that point.
>
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