[Plug] Meeting Place and Project Houses

[Master and Servant <msimons@caip.rutgers.edu>]

Well, okay here is the dealie-o. 
 
   I personally am for keeping a central resource.  However, ideas bubble in 
my head as such, to look this way...
 
  Project Houses. 
 
General Meeting, and then project houses.   I know one of the people wanted to
start a Debian Developers SIG to meet another night.  I'm sorry I am unsure of
your name at this point.  
 
Well, the place I offered honestly wouldn't hold too many more people than we 
are currently getting.  (Unfortunately we just walled off/divided up our 
larger room making it less useful for growth. -- we can still hold 25 or so in
either of two of the rooms.)  I would thusly offer the place I previously 
suggested as a home for various SIGs.  

My initial thought on this was based on saying "General meeting at the Lecture 
Hall Avi offered and then Project Houses/SIGS at the place I offer." -- Well, 
replace "Avi's offer' with "wherever we find and decide on" and my offer with 
"Whatever SIG wants to meet here that I can accomodate.. and anywhere else 
different SIGs wish to meet."

(I may send my opinion on Avi's offer, the location, splintering and projectors
in a separate email.) I would be willing to offer this place as a regular 
meeting place till we find a better place, but I am sure that by August we 
will find a good place.  

So I am suggesting project houses,  places for SIGs to meet.  I know we have 
at least the INTEREST in starting this one SIG by one of the more vocal/active 
people in the organization.  (Personally I dont know if there is enough of     
demand for a specifically Debian developers sig -- I suugested just making a 
Developers SIG -- but he's into Debian so thats what he wants to do.)  If 
anybody wants other SIGs -- I suggest you suggest them, and see if there are 
enough people to support it.  

I personally have a SIG rough-idea but I will describe it in a different email.

PLEASE NOTE: SIGS and Project Houses are not the same as Splintering, -- I am 
talking about small Special Interest Groups here rather than General Meetings 
or new LUGs.

Additional Tidbit of Thouhgt:  Project Houses and SIGs can also be beneficial 
in generating a location where people can get together and in learning, help to
generate, germanate, develop and work-out ideas and presentations that can 
eventually be presented to the group at a General Meeting. 



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