umm...isn't GCC on the east side? I thought by west side we were talking about phoenix/peoria/etc. Have I been confused these last 3 years about the local nomenclature?? ~Deepak On Mar 07 2001, at 19:44, foodog was caught saying: > I'm happy to say I was previously mislead: GCC can be used for meetings > as long as someone who's an employee attends the meetings - that'll be > me initially. > > For those familiar with GCC, I have my eye on the HT1 Teleconference > room. It's comfortable, spacious, and has networking - I'll need to do > some negotiating for a network connection but I think it can happen. > > What we need to do is determine a day and time that would be good for > the largest number of people. The room's generally available evenings. > Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6:00pm are usually free, for example. I > can check on proposed dates within one day, and reserve the room. > > I'll commit to arranging space for 3 months for starters; indefinitely > if the experience proves to be "better than a poke in the eye with a > sharp stick". > > "der.hans" wrote: > > ... > > The main thing is to follow up with whoever runs to location to make sure > > it keeps getting reserved after the initial setup. The rest is up to you > > and those who show up. Easiest is to just hang out and do installfest > > things as people show up. > > I've had kinda a negative experience w/ installfest so I don't want to > rely on that too much :-). I think I could fill about 30 minutes and > not screw up too badly with something like "intro. security for home > users": inventorying services and killing them, installing portsentry > and logcheck. I can usually type "rpm -i" > with the best of em. > > > part of GCC is one of the advantages to doing this as PLUG. Not to say > > anything bad about GCC, but there are politics and indifference in any > > such organization to overcome. ... > > Not being a student club avoids *many* annoying problems and > negotiations. > > > 2nd Thu is PLUG. 3rd Tue is Linux Stammtisch. 3rd Wed is ASULUG. I'd > > suggest not conflicting with those :). > > Just to get the ball rolling, how about the last Tuesday of the month at > 6pm? That'd be 3/27. > > Steve > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Deepak Saxena - deepak@csociety.purdue.edu - phone://602.790.0500 Code Monkey, MontaVista Software, Inc. - THE Embedded Linux Experts call me 'evil' call me 'tide is on your side' anything that you want anybody knows you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon - Tori Amos, "Suede"