I recently confirmed Eric Allman's April speaking slot at BALUG. He wrote
back asking the following...
"Was there anything in particular you wanted me to talk about? My
main gig these days has been DKIM (Email Authentication), but that's
caused me to be thinking some about identity on the Internet. That's
a lot more arm-wavy though."
Does anyone have any questions for topics that they'd like to see Eric
cover during his talk?
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Andrew Fife
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So, we can expect you to be doing a technical presentation at an upcoming
BALUG meeting? I didn't realize you'd already been confirmed for such.
Per list policy:
"Linux jobs postings are welcome and allowed only from those recently having
given a technical presentation at a BALUG meeting (or confirmed to do so at an
upcoming BALUG meeting)"
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org
Or in other words:
Can I post a job?
Not generally, but for starters, see:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org
At least at the present time, the list noted above is the only place BALUG has
for listing any job postings - and even then, only under the conditions noted as
policy for that list.
You're quite welcome to come to BALUG meeting(s) and make a short announcement
about position(s) you're trying to fill, and hand your contact information out
to whomever may be interested (and of course you can also meet folks before the
meeting starts, talk with folks over dinner before any scheduled talk starts,
and potentially meet and talk with folks after the meeting too).
User Groups can be great resources for networking with folks, but many/most of
them have policies against, or significantly restricting listing of job
postings, or have relegated the area(s) where job postings are allowed to
list(s) or area(s) specifically designated for such, or only allow such listings
after they're moderated/approved.
Quoting Maria Ekizian <mekizian(a)mobitv.com>:
> Position: Senior Linux Systems Administrator (2 openings)
I just got a note from Mark Shuttleworth's assistant that he needs to
change the date from Monday 3/24 to Tuesday 3/25. I told her this was
fine. However, the timing is unfortunate because I mentioned the 3/24
date in several forum postings that I made last night.
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Andrew Fife
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I have confirmed Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons as the BALUG
speaker for July.
Also, please note that we have Guido van Rossum (python) and Ian Murdock
(debian) as speakers who have committed to 2008 dates TBD.
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Andrew Fife
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Hi BALUG Volunteers:
I have an offer from Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu/Cannonical to speak at
BALUG on in March. However, he could only make March 24th, which is not
our regularly scheduled meeting date. I believe Mark is one of the most
influential people in F/OSS and therefore an excellent speaker. I
strongly believe that we should take him up on his offer. I'm going to
default to accepting Mark Shuttleworth on 3/24 if I don't hear anything
back otherwise.
I also cleaned up the speakers wiki a little bit:
http://www.sf-lug.com/wiki/doku.php?id=balug_speaker_coordination
-Andrew
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O'Reilly just sent me 5 copies of Eric S. Raymond's book "The Cathedral &
The Bazaar" to give away at BALUG. I'm going to ask Eric to autograph
them and then we should give them away at the meeting.
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So far we have 41 unique RSVPs for the January 15th meeting. Only one of
the RSVPS is from a BALUG regular (that I recognize), so I think we should
be looking at about 60 people right now and I expect 5 to 10 more RSVPs to
trickle in over the next couple of days. I don't feel like we have a
great pool of data from September & October, because the numbers were so
much lower, but in both cases the number of RSVPs was an excellent
predictor of how many non-regulars were going to show up.
I'll do a final reminder message to everyone who RSVP'ed on Monday or
Tuesday.
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Some updated list stats, etc.:
A fair increase (7.5% increase in total uniques) since I last checked
(see references),
list subscribers (does include also those with delivery disabled):
$ wc -l */memb*`date -I`
28 balug-admin/membership_2007-12-28
336 balug-announce/membership_2007-12-28
261 balug-talk/membership_2007-12-28
$ sort -u */membership_*`date -I` | wc -l
518
e-mail addresses that are subscribed to "talk", but *NOT* subscribed
to "announce".
$ { sort -u balug-talk/membership_`date -I`
> cat balug-announce/membership_`date -I` \
> balug-announce/membership_`date -I`; } | sort | uniq -u | wc -l
177
That will soon get "corrected" ... policy has been changed, and for those
that don't ask to be excepted, if they're on "talk" (or "admin") but not on
"announce", they'll get added to "announce" unless they follow
the procedure to get added to the exception list (this has been mentioned
now on the "talk" and "admin" lists ... I'll wait a few days or so for
folks to ask to be "excepted" - and then add those that don't ask to
be excepted to the "announce" list - I plan to do this *early* next year -
before we do our next send to the "announce" list).
I also restricted access of the list roster to the list admins - to prevent
potential abuse (e.g. by spammers). Those that have access to the balug
group on new.balug.org can also read periodically archived copies of the
list roster and backup copy of the archives (
file://new.balug.org/home/balug/e-mail_lists/
)
references:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-October/000419.…http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2007-December/004105.…http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-December/000470…