[ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

[Thomas M. Albright]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jon maddog Hall wrote:

> What do you look for in GNHLUG?
> 
Advice and assistance with linux. (Like fixing the sound on my laptop.)

> What brings you to a meeting?
> 
Either a good topic or a good speaker. (Like fixing the sound on my 
laptop.)

> What drives you away from a meeting?
> 
The location and/or time of the meeting can be a detriment. That's why 
you'll never see me at Martha's. If the big (quarterly?) meetings were 
held  on a weekend, during the day rather than at night on a weekday I 
might actually show up.

> What would it take to get you to bring new members to a meeting?
> 
Nothing really. Usually I point them at the list.

> Would you be willing to volunteer for helping to pull off some "activity"?
> 
Depends ... who would be interested in setting up wireless and remote
access to a farm and it's outbuildings (barns/sheds/etc.)?

> Would you be willing to spend a Saturday once or twice a year in staffing
> some project?  Could you get your neighbor to do it?
> 
See above, and you can ask Bruce Dawson as well.

> If so, do you have any activities that you would especially like to do?
> Particularly ones that you would be willing to participate in?
> 
Again, see above.

> Finally, after thirty-five years in the computer business it took a kid from
> Finland to remind me that I got into this space to have FUN....so what things
> would you like to do that would be FUN?
> 
Also finally, see above. :) The wireless remote monitoring of the 
animals and the shelters isn't necessary, it'd just be neat.

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