[ug-glug] Requesting input for a proposal for a March 7th meeting

[boutilier at speakeasy.net]

I just had a dialogue with Sun OS Ambassador and DTrace guy, Jim
Fiori. Jim is scheduled to be in town on March 7th and 8th to do two
Breakfast Briefs (sponsored by Sun Field Marketing) on the topic of
DTrace. He is also willing to do a talk -- or Q&A or whatever we want
-- on DTrace the night of March 7th if we want to have a GLUG meeting
that night.

Therefore -- and per the e-mail below -- I'm proposing:

- That we meet Tuesday March 7th at 7pm
- That we have no other meetings in March
- That we discuss the location of the March meeting at next Tuesday's meeting.

--Eric ("Dale")

P.S. As I mentioned a while back. If you are not on the Sun Chicago
Field Marketing techie mailing-list (used for notifications of things
like local Solaris 10 Breakfast Briefs and Boot Camps), let me know and
I'll get you added.

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From: Eric Boutilier
Date: Thu Feb  2 14:16:03 2006
Subject: [ug-glug] The proposal to not have a regular meeting day (Was: Coming up with...)

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Dennis J. Behrens wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>
> > So now we have another little dilemma. By trying to align with the zones,
> > dtrace, security, zfs, and grid speakers who will be in Chicago in february,
> > march, april, may, and june respectively, our meetings would not fall on a
> > regular day of the month (e.g. 2nd or 3rd Tuesday) for a while.
> >
> > Is that OK?
>
> I think by being able to get good presenters to potentially present to the
> GLUG, I think we can be flexible on meeting dates to accomidate these out
> of town presenters.  Yeah, it may not be a normal meeting date, but I
> think we can fall back to what the survey said for meetings where we don't
> have an out of town presenter.

Just double-checking. Is everyone OK with this approach? Please speak up
soon if you're not as it'll help me know how to go about recruiting future
Sun speakers.

Eric