Startup meeting

[Jonathan Chen]

Hey all,

Dave Williams and I are still in process of trying to look for new
locations and maybe the possibility of having a place to meet for the
group. But before we go down this road, we would like to start getting
a consensus of people's interests, thoughts, and possible leadership
for the LiLAX group.

For a temporary location, I have gotten approval to have meetings at
my place of work, which is located in Torrance. Possible days for this
meeting would be Tuesday Evening, Thursday Evening, or Saturday 10
AM.

If there are any questions or anytime that would work best for anybody
in the LiLAX group please let me know.

Thanks,

Jonathan C.

[Michael Mann]

I would welcome a location for meetings. I am an Ubuntu Linux and would
very much like a place to meet with other Linux users. Saturday morning
might work best for me. Please provide the address where the meeting
would take place.

Michael M.

[Jonathan Chen]

The address of the place would be.

1625 Abalone Ave.
Torrance, CA 90501

I am hoping we can get a quick get together next week to talk about future plans.

Thanks,

~Jonathan C.

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[nima sepassi]

Forgive the bluntness. Are actually going to have a meeting or just
talk about it?

[Steve B.]

Thanks for the the bluntness, I feel same way.

I am interested in seeing LiLax active again and going to meetings, but my time is short and a organization meeting I don't have time for. I have faith in those who want to organize to do a good job.

Steve B.

[nima sepassi]

Yeah, I'm not in a hurry. It's better to have it done right than fast.

My real concern is it's location. Torrance is so far out of range
it's crazy. If anything we should be LAX since it's in our name.
More importantly the airport is more centrally located and easier for
people from out of town, ie guest speakers and business travelers.
Also there should be a lot of hotels with conference rooms and places
for LiLax to hold meetings.

- Nima

[Steve B.]

The heyday of LiLAX I remember was when it was at MacMall building and that was in Torrance. I think key is the location itself, good parking, net connection, and hold enough people comfortably. I remember the earlier meeting at the library didn't alway have the net connection, room would get cramped. IMO if you have a good facility people will come.

Steve B.

[Jonathan Chen]

Nima and Steve,

Your concerns are well understood. To give you a heads up this meeting is just a meeting to talk about organization and the roadmap going forward. We want to start getting these meetings backup on a regular basis, but of course want to get the consensus of the group and some input. If have any concerns please let me know and we can talk about it in the meeting.

Sunrider International will just be a temporary site for now just in the beginning. There are a few caveats to the site that won't make it a very good site in the longrun.

If you have any questions please email me.

Thanks,

Jonathan C.

[nima sepassi]

Johnathan C.:

These days you have/had available, were they just last week or are
they on going, i.e. any Tuesday evening, Thursday evening or Saturday
morning?

-Nima

[Jonathan Chen]

For me personally, Monday evenings and Wednesday evenings are generally busy for me.

~Jonathan C.

[nima sepassi]

Let's just do it on Saturdays. They work pretty well for me and since
you're the one stepping up we need you there. If it doesn't work for
anyone else that's fine. We can change the date later.

[Jonathan Chen]

Nima,

We will discuss these things most likely at our meeting this Saturday. I'll make sure to talk about this matter there.



~Jonathan C.

[nima sepassi]

Oh, so there is a meeting scheduled? I had no idea.

[Jonathan Chen]

Yeah,

A meeting at Sunrider to take about organization and future roadmap for the group.



~Jonathan C.

[nima sepassi]

Is everyone else aware of this?

[Jonathan Chen]

Yeah, I believe I announced it with a quick registration form too.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&pli=1&formkey=dGxfaW8xNTRMcHV0VDNjNUVNMUNoLXc6MQ#gid=0


~Jonathan C.

[nima sepassi]

I ended up having to work. Please let me know of the next one.

Thanks,
Nima

[malanrich]

I joined the group today so missed yesterday's meeting. Are you the same folks who used to meet at Cal State Dominguez?

I live in Torrance and am very interested in a Torrance meeting location.

--Mark Richardson (malanrich)

[nima sepassi]

I missed it too. I had a job come up. Perhaps there will be another one.

[lj Palmer]

We are sort of the same group. They splintered off of the old LiLax group and then remerged with the new LiLax group a few years ago as all their leaders seem to leave the User group community or the area. One reason for the reuniting was they split of to Fullerton, but there meetings had migrated back to CSUDH which was just a little ways from where LiLax was meeting. It seemed wrong to have two user groups that close who were both having trouble getting speakers. And at times they were competing for the people.
..lj

[nima sepassi]

Political infighting.... "nice".

[Jonathan Chen]

Hey all,

I'll be writing up some minutes to share with the group of what we talked about yesterday :).

As for the history of LiLax, I have not been around it for a long time, but I took noticed that the group has been lacking meetings for a while. So I'm trying to get a regular get together for this area.

Jonathan C.

[lj Palmer]

No Political Infighting that I recall.
..lj

[chri...@linux.com]

So... Has a new infrastructure, charter and org-chart been defined
yet?

I would recommend that if a meeting is put together, a major panel to
discuss these items be a priority :)

Ran into folks from various LUGs at SCaLE 9x and one thing that kept
coming up was the value of project-driven LUGs.

Cheers.

- Christian Bryant

On May 22, 7:02 pm, lj Palmer <ljswo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No Political Infighting that I recall.
> ..lj
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> On May 22, 2011, at 17:54 , nima sepassi wrote:
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> > Political infighting.... "nice".
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> > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:43 PM, lj Palmer <ljswo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On May 22, 2011, at 16:36 , malanrich wrote:
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> >>> I joined the group today so missed yesterday's meeting. Are you the same folks who used to meet at Cal State Dominguez?
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> >>> I live in Torrance and am very interested in a Torrance meeting location.
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> >>> --Mark Richardson (malanrich)
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> >> We are sort of the same group. They splintered off of the old LiLax group and then remerged with the new LiLax group a few years ago as all their leaders seem to leave the User group community or the area.  One reason for the reuniting was they split of to Fullerton, but there meetings had migrated back to CSUDH which was just a little ways from where LiLax was meeting.  It seemed wrong to have two user groups that close who were both having trouble getting speakers. And at times they were competing for the people.
> >> ..lj
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[lj Palmer]

On Jul 7, 2011, at 15:51 , chri...@linux.com wrote:

> So... Has a new infrastructure, charter and org-chart been defined
> yet?
>
> I would recommend that if a meeting is put together, a major panel to
> discuss these items be a priority :)
>
> Ran into folks from various LUGs at SCaLE 9x and one thing that kept
> coming up was the value of project-driven LUGs.

If you have an opinion or idea, let it be known. However I would rather discuss "Windoze" than a org-chart. If anyone calls meetings with an interesting subject which people show up for is in charge. There, Org-Chart Done. That person and anyone who helps should be thanked (Charter Complete).
..lj

[Christian Bryant]

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> If you have an opinion or idea, let it be known. However I would
> rather discuss "Windoze" than a org-chart. If anyone calls meetings
> with an interesting subject which people show up for is in charge.
> There, Org-Chart Done. That person and anyone who helps should be
> thanked (Charter Complete).

I suppose that's one way to do things. However, I'm rather a fan of
the following LUGs that are organized, yet also enjoy themselves
(despite having elections and a charter):

Milwaukee LUG: http://www.milwaukeelug.org/
Egyptian LUG: http://eglug.fabrider.net/

Even the Linux Foundation [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/] has
workgroups that have formalities.

I'm not a fan of complexity, either, and subscribe to the "Open Source
Way" [http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/]. However, I just feel
some organization lends to a LUG being more than just a "meet up".

Cheers :)

- Christian Bryant

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