UNC Linux Users Group

[bil <hays AT ibiblio.org>]

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