[H-GEN] HUMBUG meetings and talks

[Harry Phillips]

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Clinton Roy wrote:
> 
>>We just need people power to organise it. I am willing to help out
>>on the organising. May even help that I'm a student of UQ.

man I would love to see these types of talks happening in Brisbane. I 
would even be willing to help out.

I use Linux in my business and am promoting it as much as I can for use 
in other businesses. It would be really cool if I could say to my 
client's "hey want to know more about Linux then come to this 
professionally run meeting"

> 
> 
> At the moment Humbug meetings are taking place purely on the good
> graces of UQ's ITS group, our relationship with them is very young and
> we'd rather not stretch it at this point; in other words, we won't be
> asking them for additional rooms any time soon.

IBM provide the facilities for the LUV group, has anyone thought about 
approaching them for facilites in Brisbane?

Imagine "yeah come to the IBM building they will let you in, they will 
give you directions to the lecture hall"

> 
> I'm certainly interested in expanding the information dispersal side
> of Humbug, but I'm also very interested in maintaining the current
> hobbyist feel.

They can co-exist. I love the hobbists feel of the Saturdays but I would 
also like to see some professional type meetings run of a week night as 
well. LUV only have meetings once a month.

> 
> For the moment at least (and this will hopefully change sometime in
> the future) it's best and simplest if we just hold talks in the
> meeting room, all it takes is a little consideration of members to
> keep quiet for half an hour.
> 
> The real guts of the problem is getting talkers, as I'm sure Ben can
> attest to.

LUV have all their past presentations on their web site, approach them 
to see if their talks are GPL :)

Then all we need is someone that is familiar on the topic to stand at 
the front. No need to re-invent the wheel. Run the brisbane one just 
after the Vic one share notes etc.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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