Recently attendance to PLUG meetings has been growing. We're back up to 30 to 40 people at the east side meeting. Having a lot of good presentations has helped there. Not only have we been getting good Free Software presentations ( including JJ's great, spontaneous presentation about his homemade wireless router ), but we've been getting some excellent presentations that aren't directly about Free Software.
We had two presentations on NASA projects ( thanks Noel and Mike! ), plus an excellent presentation on resume writing ( thanks Don! ). Mike even talked with us afterwards about his experiences on the MythBusters.
PLUG east side meeting tonight. We have presentations on IRC, gNewSense and GIMP tricks.
We also have a good turnout tonight.
We had a great turnout at last month's east side meeting as well. For that one we had Noel in from the ASU Mars project talking about his work with satellites and the mars rovers.
That was a great presentation. Lots of cool pictures and stories! He mentioned that his group asked for rocks to be mailed in and they'll examine them with the same instruments that are on the rovers. That's pretty cool. He says they've gotten 3,000 rocks ( and a few other things ) mailed in.
Talked to Brian to make sure we'll be set for the west side meeting at the new location. He'll get the cheesecake from me Friday night. He'll make sure food is arranged somehow.
Posted a reminder about the meeting to the discuss list.
Updated the meeting entry on the web site to have a description of the topic and info on the new location.
Added an article for the meeting. I don't see how to do links in the articles, so the links to the school and map don't work. Sent mail to the webdev list saying there's a problem.
Sent mail to the webdev list thanking Alan and Jared for the new banner ads.
We will be meeting in a computer classroom with 60 boxen running GNU/Linux!
The initial class will be on using Blender and we will have food and drinks on hand for the 'grand opening'.
Being just off the freeway should make the meetings much more accessable.
I'm also starting a series named "How I use Free Software". Just a few minutes from someone on how they use Free Software. Doesn't matter if it's work or personal.
Doing a presentation for PLUG west side Tue night.
Calling it "Linux etc." and covering things I think people should know. Ideally we'll have audience participation. In fact, I probably should learn something almost every time I give the presentation.
The presentation should really be mostly just standard *NIX stuff, but I'm not going to worry about compatibility this time around.
Hopefully the presentation will be a strange mix of trivial pursuit, game show and treasure hunt.
