Hi, Jan. NBLUG Meeting?

[ME]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jeff Miller wrote:
> Subject: Hi, Jan. NBLUG Meeting?
> I wanted to confirm that your January meeting will be held
> at the usual time (7:30pm?) and place (O'Reilly in Sebastopol), 

I cannot confirm that it *will* take place, since there is the chance of
the end of the world as we know it with Y2K.. ;-) but I suspect that it
will take place assuming the riots have ened.

> because I'm thinking of coming up from San Francisco to check 
> out the local tech community and pick up some contacts.  I've
> been to a SVLUG meeting (huge!) and was wondering what the
> membership of the North Bay group was like in terms of size
> and interests.

I have seen up to 40 people and as little as 16 people at meetings. They
are not nearly as large as the SVLUG meetings.

As far as interrests, I think there are a number of Perl coders, some
wireless/radio users, a few engineers, sysadmins, hobiests, desktop
publishers, and others. There are people that I have me at these meetings
that I consider talented, and/or knowledgable, and others that are not so
well informed, but very eager to learn. Can't say that I have met anyone
there that was close minded, egotistical, or irrationally opinionated.
(Maybe these peope tend to not gravitate towards Linux... ;-)

> I've been playing around with Linux since 0.98, and since 
> my girlfriend has friends and contacts around Sonoma County, 

Excellent. The largest population of members seem to be 2.0.x kernels and
later. There are a few members that used 1.2.x annd earlier. You will
probaby be one of the more experienced members.

> I'm curious to know if there are local opportunities to work 
> with open source software.

I really do not know, but there are other people here on this list that
may be able to answer this. We did have an HR person at a recent meeting
looking to hire people for work with linux, but I think his primary
interrest was linux HW driver coders for a company, and also "Linux Care"
(I think.) He still expressed interest in knowing other linux people for
"Future jobs that may come his way."

> Looking forward to saying hi in person,
The more the merrier!

I am not one of the club leaders, or elected officials, but they are good
people and are likely to correct my statements and assumptions listed in
this message where they are wrong. 

-ME