Subject: Re: AKLUG, APULUG and the organization (sorta long)
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 08:39:04 AKST
My impression was that APULUG was 'officially' started by Donovan to
give AKLUG a place to hold an Installfest. A few of us managed to
stretch it out into a regular meeting - make that 'get together'. There
was never more than 1 APU student that I was aware of involved at any
one time. First Donovan then Asheem(?).
Asheem made a couple minor attempts at getting more students involved,
but I think he had to many things going on to be able to spend any time
on it.
I don't know that APULUG was ever intended to be an actual Lug. It was
more like other people have bowling night, we had Linux night.
Jim Gribbin
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 06:17, Mike Barsalou wrote:
>
> First let me say that AKLUG hasn't died. Far from it. In fact, new people
> are subscribing to the list quite frequently.
>
> APULUG Friday nights as far as I know are officially dead. This does not
> mean that people will not meet on Friday nights to help new and old Linux
> users alike.
> As far as I remember (and someone please straighten me out if I get this
> wrong) the APULUG was formed because of high interest in Linux from a few
> people that were going to school at APU. That interest is no longer there
> or we are not currently aware of any APU people who are interested in
> keeping the APULUG going.
> That leads us to Friday night meetings.
>
> Based on the information that I have read on the list lately, there will be
> "Friday" meetings at the Career Academy in midtown. I'm not exactly sure if
> they will be every Friday, but the idea will be the same. Quoting
> mweisman@gci.net:
>
> Just for the record, I have asked the director of our school, and checked
> all the requirements, and although a meeting would have to be less than 50
> or so people, the Career Academy would be honored to host the meetings on
> Friday night. We're located right off the New Seward Highway on Tudor, so
> Access would be easy. I run a 100Base Cat5 inside and connect our using a
> 768K DSL. Have vending machines, and tables. Please let me know if this
> would be acceptable, or maybe just serve in the meanwhile.
>
> On the third Wednesday of every month (that's March 20th this month) there
> is an AKLUG meeting. This is where we make presentations to whomever would
> like to show up. This month's presentation is on Samba. Josh Burroughs did
> one last month on MySQL.
> The MySQL presentation birthed a MySQL Project that is run by Kurt Steiner
> and host by David Loutrel. Check it out at http://aklug.acme-ent.net/.
> As far as the organization goes, Dee has suggested we organize and I think
> it is prudent to look at what it would take to do that.
>
> Additionally, I have asked on this list for people who are interested in
> being on the board of such an organization and only got two responses. It
> wasn't clear to me that the two people that did respond were interested in
> making a long term commitment.
>
> Let's not forget the many people who invest there time and expertise
> whenever they are able. They have been, are, and will be the heart and soul
> of AKLUG. Without them, AKLUG would go away. My thanks to them.
>
> Here is a list of some of those people:
>
> Arthur Corliss - Webmaster
> Mike Tibor - List maintainer, server maintainer
> Greg Madden - Friday night meeting coordinator (There may be others)
> Mark Weisman - Friday night meeting host
> Adam Elkins - is designing our "Newby" web page.
> David Loutrel - MySQL Project host
> Kurt Steiner - MySQL Project lead
>
> Although I have yet to learn each of their names, there are also a bunch of
> "core" AKLUGers that show up at the Wednesday monthly meeting.
>
> I hope this clears up any questions regarding the organization. Please let
> me know if there is any information in error as well as more questions you
> might have.
>
> Mike Barsalou
>
>
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