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  • From: bil <hays AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: unclug AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [unclug] growing the LUG
  • Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:20:29 -0400

If you need a faculty sponsor, I'm willing. Also to help get/manage web space on ibiblio, and if you want to hold evening meetings, I might be able to get a room in Sitterson.

But I also agree with Todd--I'm already not making meetings I'm committed to, so I might make some, but certainly not all.

I'm the sponsor of the mac user's group. FWIW, trying to get something started in summer is a good idea, but there are fewer folks around (mainly faculty and student populations are reduced). Don't underestimate how much time it will take, or how important it is to have a core group of really committed folks to keep something like this going....

One suggestion would be rather than trying to get the group together first, instead come up with a list of topics and people willing to present them and gauge interest on this list or ctc. It's awkward once you have a regular meeting set up when there's nothing much to talk about. AFS issues would likely be a good topic (authentication, nat issues as well as installation issues). Integrating samba into AD or into AFS would be another, I think, as would firewalls/attack mitigation.

Also, the cs students have a linux group, and there's a unccs.linux group, you might contact them for input/coordination.

As an aside, in terms of student exposure to linux, it might be worth making a list of courses that do at least touch on it.

And, yes, I realize that ideas are cheap and it's the work that's hard. (;

bil

--On Friday, April 28, 2006 8:12 PM -0400 unclug-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

I will sponsor it if there is sufficient interest. I am a staff
member and I've got a significant interest
in Linux on campus.

Brian

Brian Payst, MS
Director of Technology & Systems Support
Division of Student Affairs
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
voice: (919) 962-1469 fax: (919) 962-5241

On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Cristobal Palmer wrote:

Perhaps I should've made something clear in my previous emails:
I don't need the whole list readership to jump up and help me
move some 4U servers across campus. I just need one faculty or
staff member who is willing to be a contact person so the LUG
can be an official club. I also need a couple of people who
are willing to be minimally responsible for things like
ordering pizza and hanging onto misc. forms we might have to
fill out.

It would also be nice if somebody could help advertise so that
people actually show up if we have an event... like, say, an
installfest.

Oh, and it would be good if members actually showed up to our
events. :)

I'm a bit resigned to doing a fair amount of the legwork
myself, but I can't build a LUG on my own. Believe me guys,
once they're up, these things take on a life of their own.
Doesn't take too much effort.

------------------------------------------
Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS
cmpalmer AT ils.unc.edu








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