From rnovak at indyramp.com Wed Feb 20 16:36:44 2013 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:36:44 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] Calling off tomorrow's meeting, calling for help with future meeting Message-ID: Hi folks, I'm sorry to report that we have no speaker lined up for tomorrow's meeting, so we will be cancelling the meeting. If you would like to get your tech fix on, LSPE is holding a meeting at 6pm at Yahoo on Dynamic Scaling. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/ has details and RSVPs. The next BayLISA meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 7:30pm. RSVP/Details when available will be at: http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/63736772/ o/________________________________________ o\ We'd like to avoid this speaker shortage in the future though. I'm looking for people who are able and willing to help with finding speakers and topics. We have a Board of Directors who normally coordinate these efforts, but most of the board has been too busy to follow through with this lately. If you have the time to contribute an hour or two a week of effort toward the operation of BayLISA, we invite you to come to a board meeting and consider getting involved, either as a supporting attendee (not an official title, just someone who shows up and helps), or as a future board member. Even if you don't have that time, if you have speakers or topics you'd suggest for future meetings, or can put us in contact with people you're interested in introducing to BayLISA, that will definitely help. Feel free to get in touch with me directly if you'd like to help in either way. I know from conversations before and after the meetings over the past 2+ years that not everyone likes every topic or speaker we bring in, and some of you don't like any of them. This is a great way to help address this issue, if you sincerely want to help. o/________________________________________ o\ Let me know if you have any questions. Once again, no meeting tomorrow (February 21, 2013). Next general meeting is scheduled for March 21, 2013, at Yahoo. Watch the Meetup page for the latest updates. Thanks, Robert From guy at extragalactic.net Thu Feb 21 22:10:33 2013 From: guy at extragalactic.net (Guy B. Purcell) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:10:33 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] Mark Crispin Message-ID: <874507D9-940C-4E08-BA65-406EFDDF627E@extragalactic.net> I just learned that Mark Crispin died this past December . I never met him personally, but corresponded with him via email on several occasions, and have used his software in one way or the other for well over two decades now, so his passing seems like losing something fundamental--kinda like the end of Sun :^( -Guy From rnovak at indyramp.net Tue Feb 26 15:02:30 2013 From: rnovak at indyramp.net (Robert Novak) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:02:30 -0800 Subject: [Baylisa] Survey for BayLISA fans and attendees Message-ID: Hi folks, BayLISA is conducting a survey of fans, attendees, and members, to get a sense of where we should go with meetings and topics in the future. If you have time, we'd appreciate your participation. It should take just a couple of minutes, and is open to the first 100 participants. Visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YLPC3FR to complete the survey and give us your feedback on speakers, topics, and your own place in the systems ecosystem. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA President