Count me in. A splendid idea. If you need a hand getting stuff set up just let me know, it would be easy for me to stop by after work. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:08 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] Birds of a Feather (BoF) I'm not sure how many people have been to a Linux Expo, but one of the really cool things are the Birds of a Feather (BoF) meetings. While the presentations are good, they are just that, presentations. The BoF meetings are discussion groups, ie everyone pariticpates. Last TCLUG meeting a bunch of us went to Sally's to eat and an impromptu BoF broke out. :-) It's was pretty informative. We talked about everything from a thorn in idiot Ben's foot to LVM on the S390. Where is this all leading? I think there is need for more interactive discussion within TCLUG. Don't get me wrong, the presentations are great and needed. You can't have a discussion if everyone is clueless about what is being talked about. Presentations impart knowledge. Discussion solidifies it. I also am getting personal email about the length between installfests and why it takes so much effort to get one together. So, I have been throwing around the idea of having BoF meetings at Real Time. These would be something on the order of every other week. We'd sit in the back office common room and just talk about technology. It would be open to all. Along side the BoF meeting would be a mini-installfest in the other back offices. Again these would be on the order of every other week, but because space is scare back there, it would be a registration thing. Exact times and days of the week have not been nailed down. I'm posting here to see what the level of interest would be like. Comments? -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list