Imminent Death of BayLISA / July Board Meeting Invitation

Tue Jun 15 15:05:40 PDT 2004

David Wolfskill wrote:

>Would it, perhaps, be useful if BayLISA assisted in some way with
>(re-)training?  Of course, it's easy for me to ask such things:  I tend
>to cope by reacting to others' statements of needs or requirements,
>rather than creating things like lesson plans....  :-{
>

I second this motion.

By saying so, I underline the fact that the Internet decreases the need 
for physical meetings, and allows meetings to be carried out, virtually, 
perhaps over longer periods of time. I have seen IRC servers used to 
coordinate software development across international borders and diverse 
time zones. BayLISA could do something similar. Indeed, with email 
lists, they already have. However, I digress.

Couldn't most of the organizational business be carried out remotely, at 
a penalty in response time? Motions, calls for votes, etc. Keeping 
minutes is as simple as Cc:ing an alias to a file, whose absolute path 
places it within a web server's DocumentRoot. However, I again digress.

I think there is no lack of people who know stuff, amongst the ranks.

It would be nice to give these people an opportunity to speak. A little 
public exposure and a little experience at public speaking never hurt 
anyone.

It could be in response to a call for anyone who thinks they are an 
expert in topic T ... or it could be a queue of people who would like to 
address their fellow geeks on some subject which they believe is of 
interest to their peers; let the cheers, or jeers, decide, as a natural 
feedback mechanism that needs no improvement.

In response to David's specific comments, it might, for instance, be 
someone who wishes to test their lesson plan, before offering a small 
class at the local community college in some small technical topic. 
'Introduction to JavaScript', say, or 'Installing FreeBSD for Dummies'.

Fifteen minutes per seminar; five minutes per person; use a big digital 
timer as an enforcement mechanism. Signup sheet at the back of the hall. 
One per person per meeting.

And what about the potential inventors amongst us, who have a product 
that might be of interest to their fellow administrators - lovingly 
developed, in their garage, in a tradition decades if not centuries old 
[insert clip from Disney's 'Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang', here] - who lack 
only a forum with which to cost-effectively demonstrate their product, 
to potential investors, purchasers, customers?

Again, five minutes per person; use a big digital timer as an 
enforcement mechanism. Signup sheet at the back of the hall. One per 
person per meeting.

Food for thought ...

Regards,

-- richard

-- 

Richard Childers / Senior Engineer
Daemonized Networking Services
945 Taraval Street, #105
San Francisco, CA 94116 USA
[011.]1.415.759.5571
http://www.daemonized.com

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD)
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=ZaJO
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----