first meeting

[Jon Reagan]

Hello everyone!

Since we have some folks signed up to the mailing list, I thought this
might be a good time to try and set up the first meeting for the team.
I would like to get a consensus and decide on a) how to meet and b)
when. We can use this meeting to get to know one another and also
figure out where we want to take the team. There are several
different ways I was considering meeting, but I want to do whatever
everyone is comfortable with. We can meet over skype, IRC, etc..
there are a couple different options. Just let me know how and when
you would prefer to meet and we will try to get something planned in
the next week or so.

Thanks!

Jon

[Greg Freemyer]

How many people are in this group?

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[Jon Reagan]

How would a meeting Thursday night work for y'all? I don't mean this
week, but perhaps next week? I was thinking of getting an IRC channel
set up for the group.

Jon

[wildbill]

I'll try to get signed up to the mailing list. A F2F meeting would be
good. Being small, we could get better acquainted as time goes on.

Bill

[Greg Freemyer]

If that means having a beer at 5 Seasons (or similar), I could handle
that sometime in the next couple weeks. (Not the next few days.)

If it is a formal sit down to plot opensuse"s global domination, I
can pass on that.

Greg

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[Jon Reagan]

How does Dec. 5 or 12 work out for y'all? We'll have no problem
finding a place to meet. I think it's a good idea for the meeting to
be just a social get together with other folks who like Linux. :)

Jon

[Bill Grubbs]

Fine with me. I get off work at 5pm on Saturdays.

Bill

[Greg Freemyer]

Ask again closer to the time. Way too far out for me to know what
I'll be doing then.

Greg

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[Jon Reagan]

Okay, sounds good. I'll send out another email two weeks out or so
from that date and we'll see about getting something set up. In the
meanwhile, I'll probably do some work on the wiki and try to get that
set up. Perhaps I will even be able to get an IRC channel up for the
team as well. :)

Jon

[Bill Grubbs]

Dear group,

I came across the following post on the ALE archives on their web site.
It may not be known to everyone, but sometimes internet access at work
places is filtered and you can't get google groups, facebook, etc because
they are blocked. Such is the case where I am now. It keeps employees
from playing on the job :) Well, for the most part, anyway.

[quote]
I don't suppose there's a way to participate without facebook or having
to subscribe to a google group?
I don't do either, and I use nothing but SUSE, so this is pretty
disappointing so far.
-jt

James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
<http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale>
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
[/quote]

I think Mr. Taylor would be an important addition to opensuse-georgia.
He could be
kept informed of the groups activities via personal emails or maybe by
other ways.
Thoughts?

Bill Grubbs

[Jon Reagan]

That's a good point Bill. I would like to make sure this team is
accessible by as many people as possible. The only question is how...

I've looked at several options, but I have to say that I do not have
the resources to run a mailing list, and unfortunately Novell does not
offer such services to their local user groups. Any ideas of
alternatives?

Thanks,

Jon

[Bill Grubbs]

I have two ideas, currently. 1- Post important stuff to the ALE. 2-
Post to the Suse/Novell area at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/

Bill

[Jon Reagan]

Thanks Bill for the ideas. I think posting important things to the
ALE list will be a big part of our announcing events and meetings.
Afterall, the actual number of people signed up for this list is
rather small, and just about everyone in the group is signed up for
the ALE list anyways. LinuxQuestions is an interesting idea... I'll
definately be sure to check it out.

I would really like to have something official from Novell, or rather
the openSUSE project, such as mailing lists, IRC channels, etc. I am
going to try and see what can be done in this area... but since I do
not believe there is much hope for something official from the
project, we will need to find other ways for communication.

Thanks,

Jon

[Jon Reagan]

Hey everyone,

I've been talking to Joe Brockmeier, who is the community manager of
openSUSE, and it looks like we might have our own IRC channel within
the next week or so. In the meanwhile, we've been given permission to
use the marketing channel if we need to do any planning.

I just thought I would pass along the news, and for anyone interested,
the marketing channel is #opensuse-marketing on irc.freenode.net.
I'll drop an official announcement once the final channel is made.

Jon