[GRLUG] Offer to Host Meeting

[Bob Kline]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Three or four years ago Eric H.
> > would open up a lab at ITT and
> > let people bring machines, and
> > just have install fests, and whatever
> > else people wanted to do.  Others,
> > like Ron Lauzon, might bring some
> > new gadget, a  new distribution, and
> > a stack of CD blanks. John-Thomas once brought
> > a half dozen hard drives to use for different
> > installations. Dave X would bring in a
> > home made projector and fire it up.
> >
> > Those gatherings seemed popular.
>
> Sounds like a hacker meet. (In the JWZ sense of "hacker")  That
> *would* be fun. :D
>
> It also sounds a lot like what Casey was pretty close to doing in his
> garage a few months ago; If his garage is available (even without a
> lot of pre-prep work like settings up tables or preparing a
> projector), it's probably the best location. Right off the freeway,
> and plenty of space. Freeway construction there is supposed to be
> finished in the next month, too.
>
> >
> > See http://omnibus.bobanna.com/grlug_meet_050305/
> >
> > March 5, 2005.
> >
> > The value was in getting a group of
> > people together, and letting them match
> > up with something of interest.  People
> > basically got out of it what they put in
> > to it, plus the expertise of the others,
> > and might just resolve some issue or
> > learn how to do something.
> >
> > Would that venue be of interest to
> > people now?  The advantage is that
> > people can come with issues of interest
> > to them, and just toss things around.
> > But for Eric's making his facilities
> > available, there was a high degree of
> > informality, and no real need for an overall
> > agenda.  People each make up their own.
>
> I love it...
>
>
> P.S. Incidentally, I don't think I've ever seen your column widths get
> so wide. ;-P
>


There's a good reason why newspaper
columns are the width they are.  Your
eye can take in the the full width
without moving, so all you have to do
is move your head up and down.

i.e.,  one can read faster with a
format like that.

    -- Bob
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