[ale] Post-Mortem of SLUG Meetup Group for 7/14 discussing Virtualiztion

[arxaaron]

Thanks for the review, Don!

I REALLY wanted to be there but work got in the way.

I'll be trying to make more of the SLUG meetups, though
if will be easier to do if they schedule them back to
Mondays or Tuesdays.

peace
aaron

On 2011/07/15, at 20:42 , The Don Lachlan wrote:

> All,
>
> I went to the meeting last night and thought it was worthwhile. Five  
> of us
> attended and it was very casual. There was no presentation and we had
> trouble setting up the test environment, so we just chatted about
> virtualization and then GNU/Linux. I got there right at 7P and the  
> organizer
> was there, had reserved a few couches with a table and a display and  
> the
> hostess knew about it and directed me to the space - that's a big  
> thing, as
> even the ALE meeting is hard to find it you show up late, which I  
> always
> have since it's been at Emory. :)
>
> I hadn't been to Park Tavern before; the beer was both inexpensive  
> and good
> and the service was friendly. Also, the scenery was EXCEPTIONAL. It  
> was a
> bit loud but for the small group it was manageable. If the group gets
> reliably larger, there is private space that can be reserved; the  
> organizer
> is also open to using other space.
>
> Of the five people there, all use GNU/Linux professionally, either as
> developers or administrators, with at least a few years under their  
> belts.
> (Yes, all of those were valid commas.)
>
> I expect I'll go next month.
>
> http://www.meetup.com/slugsandwich/
>
> -L
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 02:29:56PM -0400, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>> About a year and a half ago an Atlanta area Meetup for
>> Linux was started as the Southern Linux User Group (SLUG).
>> The group is under new management and I've very much
>> enjoyed attending a couple of their most recent monthly
>> meetings.
>>
>> To date their meetings have been casual, mostly social
>> type gatherings held at various eateries or taverns, but
>> it looks like they are taking on the idea of at least having
>> a central topic for the Linux discussions.
>>
>> On Thursday, July 14th they will be meeting at the
>> (Piedmont) Park Tavern, 500 10th Street, in Atlanta
>> starting at 7:00pm.
>>
>> Topic for discussion is Virtualization.
>>
>> peace
>> aaron
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