I decided to come to the meeting tonight but one other fella was here and myself. The door was not unlocked. I am not for sure if that is kinda normal-ish how things go. First time visiter; long time reader. ;)
--Jeff
On 2022-04-18 11:16, Billy Croan wrote:
Greetings Everyone,
I've gotten various questions from individuals and I wanted to answer them to all in one message.
KCLUG is a member-supported "dis-"organization. So if you show up for a meeting, there is a meeting. If you don't, there isn't. Nobody is paid or obligated to run the group, so if there's something you think someone should be doing, "patches welcome", in the spirit of libre software :-)
Anyone is free to book the room. I have no unique authority or title to enable me to do so. You don't have to live in KCMO, or even MO. I just asked Nicole Brewer (at the library) nicely last month and said I wanted to try to start the group up again and she was happy to oblige! She said she'd like to stop by sometime, so let's all be welcoming!
I decided to try to re-activate the group again last month, so it's happening. I'll work on the website tomorrow at the meeting, at least the list-email-going-to-spam problem. This will be a good opportunity to show off opendkim and email signing. And I'm signing others up with shell accounts on the server to help with other website updates.
This is a community project. KCLUG is, what all of you, choose to make of it. It's probably long overdue to replace the static html website with some CMS, so I'm accepting volunteers to take that on, and it's a great opportunity to resume-build. I can not guarantee I will be able or willing to do any specific task myself, on any schedule, but I'll try to make it to the meetings more going forward.
"Breakfast" on the website, refers to the group heading to a restaurant after the meeting. It's always been sort of an 'afterparty thing' that folks talk about as they're packing up in the library and pick a spot. The Denny's that we went to before covid burned down again last year I think, and they didn't rebuild this time. I'll miss the free life entertainment that location provided....
We have the 1st Wed and 3rd Tue through June, reserved for room 312 in the downtown public library. (The original corner room we had). As we go forward if people always attend, we will get more reservations on the calendar.
Each of us can demonstrate a technology or program to the group each week, so email the list with what you want to share and when to drum up attendance.
The KCLUG meeting at the downtown location is a 'Library Sponsored Event'. Not that they're literally paying us, but they're providing the room for free. So if you park in the library's garage (to the west of the library itself) tell the front desk it's a library event when you come in, and let the librarian validate your parking ticket, not using the self-service validator on the south counter which is only good to discount 120 minutes to $3. -- If the librarian validates it, then it's free through the end of the night.
The garage is more secure than the street, right next to the library, free now, and never full. Unless you drive a chevy bolt apparently. There's a big no-bolt or no-volt sign at the gate. I guess someone caught fire before that recall! They have a DC fast charger in the garage, but no L2 charger
I have a few more 3d prints to share tomorrow, and I'll demonstrate setting up DKIM on linux tomorrow, because that seems to be something affecting our mailing list. (Hope this message finds you all well)
-Billy Croan _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug