One off Pi Day

[tom r lopes]

Aaron and I will be at Cafe Blue Door this Sunday the 15th to work on Pi stuff.  

You are welcome to join us.  

As always noon til 3ish at Blue Door and while we try to get the big table we are respectful to 

other patrons and to the workers and the venue.  

Side note:  I realize that I don't have a sign like Michael has for his groups.  I will try to come 

up with something but I'm not very artistic.  So I would welcome any input.  

Anyways the next regular meeting is October 6th.  I wish I could call it the OctoPi meeting but 

that name is already taken for a Pi based 3d print server ;-)  

Thomas

[Rick Moen]

Quoting tom r lopes (tomr...@gmail.com):

> Anyways the next regular meeting is October 6th. I wish I could call
> it the OctoPi meeting but that name is already taken for a Pi based 3d
> print server ;-)

Oktapodi!
https://youtu.be/badHUNl2HXU

(I'll just show myself out.)

[goossbears]

On Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 7:22:24 PM UTC-7, trl wrote:

Aaron and I will be at Cafe Blue Door this Sunday the 15th to work on Pi stuff.  

You are welcome to join us.  

As always noon til 3ish at Blue Door and while we try to get the big table we are respectful to 

other patrons and to the workers and the venue. 

Also, posted notice of the One-off Pi Day on Mastodon at https://fosstodon.org/@aaronco36/102783211989286089/

and submitted to the BerkeleyLUG site https://berkeleylug.com/ earlier this morning the post 'One-off Pi Day and Search for new locale'

Hope that this helps!

-A

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[goossbears]

On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 8:59:43 AM UTC-7, goossbears wrote:

Also, posted notice of the One-off Pi Day on Mastodon at https://fosstodon.org/@aaronco36/102783211989286089/

and submitted to the BerkeleyLUG site https://berkeleylug.com/ earlier this morning the post 'One-off Pi Day and Search for new locale'

Hope that this helps!

-A

Apparently, that new post went by default to https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com , so am unsure if/when it'll appear there rather than on Michael P's "new" balug (BALUG.org) virtual machine

host for https://berkeleylug.com -- note the additional "wordpress" text sandwiched between "berkeleylug." and ".com" in just the "old" site.

Here is my post from this morning, just in case the WordPress people (via https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/ ) or Michael P somehow aren't able to get it out fairly soon ...

One-off Pi Day and Search for new locale

One-off Pi Day

BerkeleyLUG is having a one-off Pi Day this Sunday, 2019-09-15 from 12Noon to 3pm at Cafe Blue Door.  The regular BerkeleyLUG Pi Day is still the first Sunday of the month (next one is on October 6th.)

As regular BerkeleyLUG participant tomrlopes wrote on the mailing-list within the past two months :

Same place and time as the Berkeley LUG meetings:  Cafe Blue Door from noon till 3 pm.  Raspberry Pi, Arduino or any single board computer welcome.

Tips:
Enable ssh (headless):  create empty file ssh in the boot volume
Preconfigure WIFI: mount rootfs partition and edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf  so that it looks like this
: country=US
: ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
: update_config=1
: network={
:       ssid="Blue Door Cafe"
:       psk="bluedoor2019"
: }

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Search for a new locale

Cafe Blue Door has gotten quite crowded with students on the last couple of regular BerkeleyLUG meetups, what with Cal's Fall Semester fully underway.

As regular BerkeleyLUG participant michaelpaoli wrote earlier this week in a Comment following the last post https://berkeleylug.com/2019/09/02/site-hosting-moved-httpsberkeleylug-com-now-on-balug-virtual-machine/ :

... meeting venue has been bit of an issue and there’ve been some changes on that. This past Sunday’s meeting (2019-09-08) didn’t work so well with venue … though still many of us did settle/”squeeze” in there after a while (and attempting some nearby alternatives).

We’re continuing to look at / research alternatives – both venue, and possibly adjusting timing (notably possibly starting earlier).

One alternative that may be worth exploring before/during/after the One-off Pi Day this Sunday is Wrecking Ball Coffee Roaster's 1600 Shattuck Ave shop in North Berkeley, at the site of what used to be a Philz Coffee.
As its East Bay Express writeup Wrecking Ball Coffee Expands to the East Bay wrote :

The downstairs level of the two-story cafe is full of light. Upstairs, there's a long communal table for studying, a couple of small tables, some armchairs, a couch, and a small outdoor area that'll be turned into a kids' play area.

Note from the respective Yelp pages https://www.yelp.com/biz/85-c-bakery-cafe-berkeley-4 and https://www.yelp.com/biz/algorithm-coffee-berkeley-2 that both previous BerkeleyLUG meetup venues 85C Bakery Cafe and Algorithm Coffee shut down within the last half-year.

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-A

[goossbears]

Also, posted notice of the One-off Pi Day on Mastodon at https://fosstodon.org/@aaronco36/102783211989286089/

and submitted to the BerkeleyLUG site https://berkeleylug.com/ earlier this morning the post 'One-off Pi Day and Search for new locale'

Hope that this helps!

-A

Apparently, that new post went by default to https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com , so am unsure if/when it'll appear there rather than on Michael P's "new" balug (BALUG.org) virtual machine

host for https://berkeleylug.com -- note the additional "wordpress" text sandwiched between "berkeleylug." and ".com" in just the "old" site.

Here is my post from this morning, just in case the WordPress people (via https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/ ) or Michael P somehow aren't able to get it out fairly soon ...

 

Aaro, have you doublecheeked berkeleylug.<wordpress>.com page to see if iz there???

Yep, https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/ shows that it posted perfectly, thanks :-)

A few of us will just have to be more careful make sure to specify https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com until whenever....

-A

[tom r lopes]

What do you guys think of this for a Pi day logo?  

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[Rick Moen]

Quoting tom r lopes (tomr...@gmail.com):

> What do you guys think of this for a Pi day logo?

Impeccable and almost edible.

[Alan Tong]

"Berkeley Raspberry Pi Meeting"

  Excellent.  Looks good.

and can make it into a folded sign with

both sides printed.        Alan

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[goossbears]

On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 8:11:46 AM UTC-7, atn wrote:

"Berkeley Raspberry Pi Meeting"

  Excellent.  Looks good.

and can make it into a folded sign with

both sides printed.        Alan

Same all around for me too ("impeccable", "excellent", "looks good", ... etcetera.)

The only suggestion on top of making it into a folded sign with both sides

printed is to maybe add three or five extra blank lines between each side

and to then add a visible foldline directly through the middle. 

Some people get fancy by doing a foldline of equal signs with the obvious

message "FOLD HERE" in the middle of the line for further emphasis, like so...

"=======================  FOLD HERE  ======================="

IMHO, the foldline doesn't really have to get that fancy; a simple line of

dashes running across the middle of the page does just fine.

-A

[goossbears]

Oh, and please don't forget that if it's going to be a folded sign, you/whoever-else

might want to reverse the current orientation of each side of the sign 180 degrees

so that when it's printed out and folded in the middle, the current top half ends up

appearing correct side up after the fold and the current bottom half ends up

appearing correct side up.

[tom r lopes]

Logo download is here:  https://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules/ The jpg is in the zip file.  

Then I used Libre Office Draw via this guide:  https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/193962/table-tent-cards/ 

I just lined it up by eye.  Probably would have been good to make tables first.  But I'll print it out today and check.  

BTW:  Photo of the event:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/sfuwAPEePznKYuEr5 

Thomas

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[Michael Paoli]

> From: goossbears <acoh...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: One off Pi Day
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:15:29 -0700 (PDT)

> On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 8:59:43 AM UTC-7, goossbears wrote:
>>
>>
>> Also, posted notice of the One-off Pi Day on Mastodon at
>> https://fosstodon.org/@aaronco36/102783211989286089/
>>
>> and submitted to the BerkeleyLUG site https://berkeleylug.com/ earlier
>> this morning the post 'One-off Pi Day and Search for new locale'
>>
>> Hope that this helps!
>> -A
>>
>
> Apparently, that new post went by default to
> https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com

> <https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/>

> , so am unsure if/when it'll appear there rather than on Michael P's "new"
> balug (BALUG.org) virtual machine
> host for https://berkeleylug.com -- note the additional "wordpress" text
> sandwiched between "berkeleylug." and ".com" in just the "old" site.
> Here is my post from this morning, just in case the WordPress people (via
> https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/
> ) or Michael P somehow aren't able to get it out fairly soon ...

Well, I'm quite unfamiliar with fosstodon.org,
about all I've got on it is on:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=berkeleylug:digital_resources
I noted:
Fosstodon instance on Mastodon
https://fosstodon.org/@berkeleylug
Creator and owner: Aaron Cohen
... so ... Aaron ... perhaps you can figure out how to
(re)configure fosstodon.org/@berkeleylug so it (also) goes to
https://berkeleylug.com/ (in some appropriate place), and
no longer goes to:
https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/ - that being the "old" vestigial
site, which ought be ignored by search engines and most humans (it
never was the canonical URL - or at least not in many many years - it
would just HTTP 301 redirect to https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/ ...
only now that we've moved off of it is it set to no longer redirect
(we we can check/compare to old content for a bit, if/when we might
have any reason to). Intent is we'll get rid of berkeleylug.wordpress.com
in the not too horribly distant future ... so no real reason to be updating
or posting to there.

[Michael Paoli]

> Subject: Re: One off Pi Day

> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT)

> https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/

As mentioned else posts, mostly want to:
*avoid*: https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/
*use*: https://berkeleylug.com/

Maybe I should muck with some 'o the old former site
content to make it yet more obvious. ;-}

[Michael Paoli]

I whacked most of the content from the "old" site,
to make things yet much more obvious - and also added
more prominent links to the new.

Also, on the "new", moved the "Meta" widget up near
top right - that now makes the "Log in"(/Log out") and "Register"
(among others) a fair bit easier to see/notice.
I also reposted newer posting that had been placed on the old,
onto the new, and removed it from the old.

Also fixed the display of the embedded Google Calendar on the
Meetings page.

For the Administrators that are curios or need to know, most of the
old content can still be found (for now) on the old site in the
"Trash".

[goossbears]

On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 9:57:55 PM UTC-7, Michael Paoli wrote:

> Subject: Re: One off Pi Day
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT)

> https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/one-off-pi-day-and-search-for-new-locale/

As mentioned else posts, mostly want to:
*avoid*: https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/
*use*:   https://berkeleylug.com/

The Fosstodon instance on Mastodon for BerkeleyLUG is

https://fosstodon.org/@berkeleylug and that should probably

be reflected in one way or another in the "new" usable

BerkeleyLUG site at its new BALUG virtual machine host,

although probably in a different manner than the link to the

[currently unmaintained] BerkeleyLUG Twitter page

https://twitter.com/berkeleylug

The 'One off Pi Day' event was backposted

to the Berkeley Fosstodon link

https://fosstodon.org/@berkeleylug/102808611128079212

Since Michael P's recent "new" BerkeleyLUG.com site

edits have improved administrative login (and login for

legitimate commentators as well), then no, there is

little further need for the time-being to continue to point

to the "old" berkelelylug.wordpress.com site.

Furthermore, now that Tom L is fully on-board (again) as an

active and "new" BerkeleyLUG.com site Editor, he can help

ensure that new posts by himself and by other contributors

get posted in an expedited fashion in the event that other

site admins are somehow unable to carry this for the newly

hosted site.

A Win-Win situation for everyone all-around! :-D

-A

[tom r lopes]

Ah yes. I got the sign completely wrong. Alan Tong had been trying to tell me but I hadn't understood until I printed it out. 

Top should be upside down and bottom right side up. 

Sorry Alan. 

I'll fix it before October. 

Thomas

[Michael Paoli]

I'd generally be inclined to not print fold line for a simple
fold-in-half. It's basically just one more thing to be not
aligned exactly right when printed ... or when folded.

So I'd be inclined to skip it entirely - or make it quite subtle
(e.g. maybe a pair of small and/or lightened + marks).

Where I think fold lines make more sense, is more complex
designs - e.g. where there was markings and printing on
piece of paper to fold into a optical disk sleeve. That
had multiple folds, different directions of folds, and proper
ordering to it - and I think somehow there was enough information
also printed to be fairly likely (if one was paying attention)
to get all those folds correct.

> From: goossbears <acoh...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: One off Pi Day

[goossbears]

On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 5:09:55 PM UTC-7, Michael Paoli wrote:

So I'd be inclined to skip it entirely - or make it quite subtle
(e.g. maybe a pair of small and/or lightened + marks).

Or one could just make sure to at least have those three blank lines

between each half of the sign for spacing reasons, and then add a

few simple, erasable, across-the-page pencil marks aligned across

the middle (assuming that ppl still have and use pencils(?) ) 

Not a big deal either way :-)

-A