Re: Renaming of SVLUG Meetup to SFLUG Meetup

I took Sarah Newman's suggestion and renamed the Meetup now to SFBayLug.

https://www.meetup.com/SFBayLUG/

It is my understanding that this Meetup will announce Meetups in both SF
and Silicon Valley.

Also I have had a three people send me mail saying that they think they may
be able to provide a venue I am following up on that.

Also, I have one volunteer to talk. So, it looks like we will have a South
Bay meeting coming up. Yay!

I had told Rick Moen that I didn't think it likely that I would be able to
attend Meetups in the South Bay anymore, but, I have changed my mind and
will make an effort to schedule some and attend. I really enjoy them and
always learn a lot.

-kevin






On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:12 PM Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Sarah Newman ([email protected]):
>
> > What about making it a meta group - SFBayLUG or something like that?
> > That precludes SVLUG losing access and looking dead, but has a name
> > which opens up (re)posting really any LUG event in the bay area,
> including
> > in south bay.
>
> That's IMO a substantially better name idea than the one I suggested to
> Kevin, so thanks.
>
> It's also, FWIW, one with some history:  When Art Tyde and Dave Sifry
> were founding what became BALUG around 1997 (which for years thereafter
> met in the upstairs banquet room at the Four Seas Restaurant in
> Chinatown), Art kept fiddling with the group's name, and for a while
> called it San Francisco Bay Area Linux Group.[1]
>
> Without objecting to your idea, I'll point out that Meetup, Inc. builds
> into the provided infrastructure a strong 'walled garden' orientation.
> People cannot get notification except through meetup.com membership, nor
> do RSVP except through that.  So, you really cannot run a meta LUG
> there:  You can try, but will be hobbled by the Meetup, Inc.-captive
> nature of the thing.
>
> (I'm trying really hard to not recap my anti-Meetup rant, here, but see
> details under subhead 'Meetup is Inflexible' on
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html .)
>
>
> > Personally I don't mind getting SF notifications, though I probably
> won't go.
> > I might go to peninsula events.
>
> If you get SF notifications that you think are interesting, please mail
> a copy to me, because I decline to be Meetup member for reasons outlined
> in my essay.
>
>
> > That's probably true for folks who live and work in one location. People
> > who work in one location and live in the other may be willing
> > to either stick around late or go home early for an event.
>
> I know.  I used to be one on multiple occasions, such as when I lived
> above The CoffeeNet in SOMA and either drive or took CalTrain + bicycle
> to work at VA Linux Systems in Sunnyvale.  But, FWIW, even though I
> attended almost all LUG meetings in both SF and the South Bay, I very
> rarely encountered other people who did that (to my knowledge; of course,
> I didn't always know particiulars of people's residences and
> workplaces).  I _think_ that has been relatively rare for Bay Area Linux
> people -- and more so now that SF rents have gone skywards and rush hour
> traffic has become dramatically worse.
>
>
> [1] Eventually the group's name converged on the name Sifry had given
> the mailing list, which was 'balug'.  Ironically, the exact same thing
> happened at this LUG, which in 1997 was still the Silicon Valley
> Computer Society PC-UNIX SIG, after Rob Walker set up a Majordomo
> mailing list for it called 'svlug'.
>
>
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