[Luna] The Future of LUNA

[David Earl Smith]

Spose it's about time I spoke up. :-)

I'm the president of ACM, and we are quite alive!

Eck isn't the advisor anymore, because he was forced to become the CS
chair, which doesn't leave much time for club activities and sabbaticals.
James Palmer is our advisor now, and he's been able to put a lot more
effort into things around here.

ACM has recently seen quite a rebirth, and has had double-digit
attendances at all our recent meetings.  Of course this doesn't mean ACM
can't be improved with an alliance.

We have meetings every other Thursday at 5:30PM in room 120 of the new
Engineering building.  This Thursday (the 26th) is a meeting day!

We are very interested in combining forces!  I'd love to see some of the
LUNA crew at our next meeting, and am ready to give a good chunk of
adgenda time to LUNA and to discussion of merging some of our goals and
resources.  And once we get the next LUNA meeting time worked out, I'll be
sure ACM makes an effort to reciprocate!

I think that the student body at NAU is the key to both a successful
installfest, and a growing membership for LUNA. :-)

We are also interested in having an official presentation by the USGS at
our next meeting, if such a thing can be arranged with such short notice.
I think James Palmer may have already mentioned this to someone.

-- David

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Deborah Lee Soltesz 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
> >(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" <jp at jpbonn.com>
> >To: "Linux Users of Flagstaff/Northern Arizona" <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)  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
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