[CoLoCo] FC meeting outcomes, ideas, etc...

[Kevin Fries]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:10 -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, siblog <tehsiblog at gmail.com> wrote:
>         HARDY RELEASE PARTY
>         I would be willing to help set this up. What area in Denver?
>         North, south, east, west, central? I remember people did not
>         want to meet in downtown. Anyone have any places that they
>         recommend? dislike?
> 
> Excellent. I can't find the email from Kevin that listed 2 or 3 good
> locations but I think they were in the north part of Denver near the
> freeway. I think that was the key thing. Any place big enough to take
> a 50+ person reservation is probably fine. I think Dave and Busters
> was one of the suggestions but I'm by no means saying that is the best
> option. I've never even been to one.

I think the main place I was advocating was Gordon Biersch.  Its a place
similar in nature to Hopps, only larger, that is at FlatIron's Crossing.
The idea then was that 121 (Wadsworth in Denver) comes down from
Longmont, Boulder Turnpike services Boulder/Superior, Wadsworth serves
the west Denver and the rest come from Valley Highway to the Boulder
Turnpike.

>         Would this be a semi-closed event for just the group or an
>         advertised event for all to come? If it is an open invitation
>         party then it might be best to get System76 involved
>         relatively soon
> 
> I say make it open to anyone but we do need to try and get a rough
> idea of how many. We can't make a reservation for 50 if only 25 are
> going to come and if we end up with 100 that would be problematic too.
> Maybe a place that can be flexible would be nice. One broken up into
> sections and they just give us one (or two).

I say advertise the begeebers out of it.  Allot of times, the facility
that would host a place like that (i.e. Gordon Biersch in my example
above) would help pay for posters.  After all, its an advertising
opportunity for them also.

>         UBUNTU EDUCATION WEEK
>         Sounds like a great idea! I would definitely be willing to
>         help host a local event at a coffee shop (or where ever) to
>         help spread the word and let people demo Ubuntu.
> 
> Also excellent. Lets see how much interest this generates and then
> hopefully people in each part of the state will step up and start
> planning. 

I have teaching experience (one year at Westwood College teaching
Oracle, Web [html, javascript, etc], Java, but mostly advanced
networking and servers)... I would be more than willing to tend free or
low cost training sessions either stand-alone or as part of some event.


-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.