<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Three or four years ago Eric H.<br>
> would open up a lab at ITT and<br>
> let people bring machines, and<br>
> just have install fests, and whatever<br>
> else people wanted to do. Others,<br>
> like Ron Lauzon, might bring some<br>
> new gadget, a new distribution, and<br>
> a stack of CD blanks. John-Thomas once brought<br>
> a half dozen hard drives to use for different<br>
> installations. Dave X would bring in a<br>
> home made projector and fire it up.<br>
><br>
> Those gatherings seemed popular.<br>
<br>
</div>Sounds like a hacker meet. (In the JWZ sense of "hacker") That<br>
*would* be fun. :D<br>
<br>
It also sounds a lot like what Casey was pretty close to doing in his<br>
garage a few months ago; If his garage is available (even without a<br>
lot of pre-prep work like settings up tables or preparing a<br>
projector), it's probably the best location. Right off the freeway,<br>
and plenty of space. Freeway construction there is supposed to be<br>
finished in the next month, too.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> See <a href="http://omnibus.bobanna.com/grlug_meet_050305/" target="_blank">http://omnibus.bobanna.com/grlug_meet_050305/</a><br>
><br>
> March 5, 2005.<br>
><br>
> The value was in getting a group of<br>
> people together, and letting them match<br>
> up with something of interest. People<br>
> basically got out of it what they put in<br>
> to it, plus the expertise of the others,<br>
> and might just resolve some issue or<br>
> learn how to do something.<br>
><br>
> Would that venue be of interest to<br>
> people now? The advantage is that<br>
> people can come with issues of interest<br>
> to them, and just toss things around.<br>
> But for Eric's making his facilities<br>
> available, there was a high degree of<br>
> informality, and no real need for an overall<br>
> agenda. People each make up their own.<br>
<br>
</div>I love it...<br>
<br>
<br>
P.S. Incidentally, I don't think I've ever seen your column widths get<br>
so wide. ;-P<br></blockquote><div><br><br>
There's a good reason why newspaper<br>
columns are the width they are. Your<br>
eye can take in the the full width <br>
without moving, so all you have to do<br>
is move your head up and down.<br>
<br>
i.e., one can read faster with a<br>
format like that.<br>
<br>
-- Bob<br>
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