SVLUG meetings, and lack of

An enormously generous gentleman named Kevin Dankwardt has for the last
few years both lined up technical speakers for monthly SVLUG meetings
and supplied an excellent meeting venue, the cafeteria at Cavium, an
embedded Linux company in north San Jose -- amusingly, about a block 
south of the old north San Jose Karl's Jr. community room where SVLUG 
met for long years through the middle 1990s.  

Well...  Kevin no longer works in San Jose, but rather for some firm in
San Francisco.  I strongly suspect this means there's no practical way
he can sponsor events at Cavium, though I haven't asked.  I notice that
Kevin's two Meetups (including the one he has generously sponsored for
SVLUG's Meetup presence) have had no meetings since SVLUG's most recent
meeting in July 2018 -- except that is Silicon Valley Linux Technology
Meetup finally had an interesting meeting this past evening at a new
venue in San Francisco.

The end-result is that SVLUG's meeting program has for now gone defunct,
having neither anyone in this area lining up speakers nor (I infer) an
evening meeting venue suitable for technical presentations.   I'm going
to soon update www.svlug.org to say meetings have been suspended.


If any of y'all would like to _resume_ meetings, I would suggest
starting small.  The easly, low-hanging fruit is to find a restaurant 
that reliably has unoccupied large tables where one or two groups of 
(say) 8 or 12 people can sit, and eat, and chat.

The back dining room at Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too!, 939 W El Camino
Real nr.  Castro St., Mountain View, would be an obvious possibility,
and was SVLUG's after-meeting dinner location for a long time (open
until 10pm for dinner).  Also, many pizza places would be suitable:
Make sure there isn't loud music, overcrowding, blaring televisions, or
{shudder} karaoke.

http://frankiejohnnieluigitoo.com/
https://www.yelp.com/biz/frankie-johnnie-and-luigi-too-mountain-view

It'd be nice if someone else steps forward and declares a venue &
day/time, and I'll then add it to the schedule.  (If you do the work,
you get to pick.  Traditionally, we have been on 1st Wednesdays.)

If nobody acts, then no more meetings until someone does.


(It's possible I've misunderstood some part of the Cavium situation, in
which case perhaps Kevin can speak to that.  Thanks for many, many
things, Kevin.)