[Luna] The Future of LUNA

[Deborah Lee Soltesz]

Wednesdays I'm usually gone by noon. I recommend we hold this over dinner somewhere -- lunch is WAY too short for this topic. Also, Fratelli's is far too noisy and small for a meeting. Kyle recommended Las Mananitas downtown, which seems both large enough and quiet enough. How about: 

  Las Mananitas
  Thursday, November 2 
  6:00PM

If that works for folks, Kyle or I can look into making reservations.

deborah
dsoltesz at usgs.gov

At 04:04 PM 10/23/2006, you wrote:
>Everyone is certainly welcome without discussion.  Anyone interested in the group can voice their input.  I shouldn't matter if they have ever attended or not.  The decision to change should be left to the regulars to make.  We may want to define "regulars".  I may not actually be a regular if the restriction is a year of attendance.  If it is judged by participation then I would be up there. 
>
>Deborah,
>Are you able to make the meeting time?
>
>
>On 10/23/06, Deborah Lee Soltesz <<mailto:dsoltesz at usgs.gov>dsoltesz at usgs.gov > wrote:
>Thanks Dan - I thought Eck was still the sponsor! I'd talked to John Placer (and I believe Eck too) at a couple DAC meetings about the lackluster participation in NAU ACM, and mentioned the idea of bringing LUNA and ACM together. There's been occasional interest in this group with being more involved at NAU. I've heard ACM's trying to have a bit of a resurgence, with hopes that the fancy new building will provide more stability for the group. 
>
>If we're planning on having a meeting to discuss LUNA's future, perhaps we should invite James to the talk with us about ideas of bringing ACM and LUNA together.
>
>deborah
>
>At 03:19 PM 10/23/2006, Dan Li wrote: 
>>I'm a faculty member in CS department at NAU. The answer to your question is
>>yes, the NAU ACM chapter is still active. Dr. James Palmer
>>(<mailto:James.Palmer at NAU.EDU>James.Palmer at NAU.EDU ) is our ACM faculty sponsor. You might contact him for
>>more information on ACM. I followed your discussion here and feel strong
>>that the collaboration between ACM and LUNA will benefit both of us.
>>
>>DL
>>===========================
>>Dan Li, Ph.D.
>>Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
>>Northern Arizona University
>>15600 S. McConnell Circle
>>NAU bldg. 69
>>Flagstaff, AZ 86011 
>>(928) 523-1468;   (928) 523-2300 (FAX)
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "JP Bonn" <<mailto:jp at jpbonn.com>jp at jpbonn.com>
>>To: "Linux Users of Flagstaff/Northern Arizona" < <mailto:luna at lists.flaglug.org>luna at lists.flaglug.org>
>>Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:16 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Luna] The Future of LUNA
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know if the NAU ACM chapter is active?  The last message on 
>>> their website was posted in 2004.
>>> (<http://www.cet.nau.edu/Orgs/ACM/?page=mesgs>http://www.cet.nau.edu/Orgs/ACM/?page=mesgs)  There's no one subscribed
>>> to the main ACM listserve for NAU.  (I was going to say that the ACM's 
>>> mandate is a bit broader than OSS/GNU/Linux but it appears that's a moot
>>> point.)
>>>
>>> Take the following with the caveat that I've only attended 4 meetings
>>> (but I have lurked on the list for many years).... 
>>>
>>> My biggest complaint about Luna has been it's limited focus.  Flagstaff
>>> is a small town and it's hard to sustain a technical interest group.
>>> Luna's historically strong focus on Linux System Administration has 
>>> meant it's been of little interest to me.
>>>
>>> For me Linux is a tool I use to get my job done - it's not the end all.
>>>  It's kind of like carpenters getting together and talking about the 
>>> hammer they are using but failing to mention the house they are
>>> building.  There's people at USGS doing interesting stuff that has
>>> nothing to do with Linux - I would love to hear about it.  I could give 
>>> presentations on porting the GNU toolchain, or a tutorial on subversion
>>> or how we spent $25 million on a internet company and have nothing to
>>> show for it.  I would like to hear someone talk about Microsoft's 
>>> trusted computing platform.  Many of these things have nothing to do
>>> with Linux/OSS/GNU but would make for interesting meetings.  By limiting
>>> the focus you're limiting Luna's future.
>>>
>>> JP