Re: SVLUG meetings, and lack of

Hi Guys,
    i am working at comcast and I am checking with facilities if we can
help hold the event. Perhaps it is a very short notice to organize any
event for January but if everything goes well then we will be able to hold
a meeting from February in Sunnyvale. Most of our staff lives in San Jose
and come to work in sunnyvale so it will not be completely out of the way
commute for drive once a month for interesting topics.

Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:25 PM Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.)
>
>
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