Re: CLUG reboot

Hi Cody,

Sorry for the confusion Cody, and thanks for the correction and 
clarification. Not knowing fully what openstack was I gave a wrong 
impression as to plans. It's just about getting ready to move our 
server. I was talking about the impending move to some of the more 
technical members who attended the last meeting.

You had offered to host clug.

CLUG had an offer from era.ca to sponsor us and I was skeptical it would 
be a good fit. After checking them out I see what they do does not seem 
to conflict at all with a LUG mandate.

We have two offers of free server hosting for our simple site. What is 
your advice on this?

I gefer to your expertise. We have a new core group who showed up at the 
last meeting and were in fact just waiting for a meeting announcement. 
They have a strong interest in being involved in promoting Linux and 
activate the social part of the group again, not to mention.also having 
fun while doing it.

thks

---Melvin



On 10/01/17 09:29 AM, Cody Swanson wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure what is planned but openstack is a framework 
> intended for managing vm's on a large number of servers, typically one 
> to several racks of servers. You can get it working on a single host 
> for a lab/testing type environment but it's not really practical to do 
> this in production. It's a large undertaking to get it working 
> properly and would require quite a bit of hardware, what is CLUG up to?
>
> ----- On Jan 9, 2017, at 8:10 PM, frank <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Hello Neil,
>
>     I was attending the meeting and found it very nice - in the sense
>     of friendly, curious, polite people with many different interests
>     and specialties in Linux.
>
>     Today I got an email from Mel who was building a server with
>     openstack. That would be a huge topic for more than one evening.
>     I  would be very interested in that because I am not familiar with
>     those tasks at all. Today I googled and 'researched' only a little
>     bit, scratched on the surface, and was quite fascinated by that.
>     So this is just another topic or idea for our group.
>
>     Doesn't it look already very promising for our group?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Frank Hofmann
>
>
>     On 2017-01-09 2:32 PM, Neil Mayhew wrote:
>
>         Following our first meeting of the new year on Jan 4, I’ve
>         been given the job of polling the list to find out what kinds
>         of things members would be looking for in a reorganized and
>         revitalized group. Several things were mentioned at the
>         meeting, including:
>
>           * Sharing Linux-related information and ideas
>           * Learning about new and cool things that are being done
>             with Linux
>           * Deepening and extending our knowledge by learning from
>             others with more experience
>           * Providing and receiving advice and assistance face-to-face
>
>         If you have further thoughts that would help to refine or
>         extend our mission, please contribute them here. We need to
>         hear from as many people as possible as we try to reform the
>         group. We also need to know the level of interest that exists,
>         and how many people we should plan for at future meetings.
>
>         Most of us at the meeting also felt it would be helpful to
>         have some talks lined up to stimulate interest and attendance.
>         A number topics were suggested, and I’ve since thought of
>         several more, including:
>
>           * *Gaming* on Linux using PlayOnLinux and Steam
>           * *Non-mainstream distros*, such as:
>               o /NixOS/, a very different kind of distro, based on
>                 ideas from functional programming, with full rollback
>                 capability for any and all configuration changes
>                 including software updates and even new distro releases
>               o /CoreOS/, a stripped-down and robust environment for
>                 hosting Docker containers (see below)
>           * *RaspberryPi/Arduino/Beagle/etc.*
>               o Using RPi as an audio system with high-quality DACs
>               o ErgoDox, an open-source, open-hardware ergonomic
>                 keyboard using Teensy
>               o Maker-based projects
>           * *OpenWRT*, putting Linux on an off-the-shelf router using
>             the smallest distro of all
>           * *Ubuntu for Devices* (phones, tablets, etc.)
>           * *Creating packages* for previously-unpackaged software on
>             Debian/Ubuntu/Mint etc.
>           * *Cloud deployment* of Linux using Amazon or Google
>             on-demand instances
>           * The *Linux container* revolution, using Docker and LXD
>
>         We might already have a few people willing to give talks on
>         some of these topics. However, we want to involve as many
>         people as possible in contributing to meetings. Giving a
>         full-length talk may be a little daunting if you’ve never done
>         anything like that before, but an alternative that’s worked in
>         other places is for people to give “lightning talks” of 5 to
>         15 minutes, and to schedule several of these in one meeting,
>         especially if they’re somewhat related.
>
>         If you have ideas for a talk, or would be willing to give one,
>         either full-length (20-40 minutes) or “lightning”, please
>         write back and let us know.
>
>         Looking forward to new and exciting things from CLUG in 2017!
>
>         ​
>
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