SPUG:Open Source Avocacy kick-off meeting in Portland, OR

[Michael R. Wolf]

SPUG-ers,

It's road trip time again.... Here's an announcement from the PDX PM
mailing list. There's a new Open Source Advocacy group starting in
Portland.

Anyone want to make a road trip out of it? 

I may use this as an excuse to visit friends, but we could carpool in
one direction, and bus/train the other direction. That's what I did
last weekend for Linux Fest Northwest.

Michael Wolf

P.S. And in the "it's a small world" category, while returning from
LFNW I bumped into Michael Schwern at 1 a.m. during the 15 minutes I
spent in the Seattle Greyhound station. He was getting on the
Greyhound bus that I had just gotten off.

P.P.S. Heck, for that matter, I bumped into Ingy at the 20,000+ peace
rally earlier this year. Must be taht geek-dar.

P.P.P.S. I could *definately* pick the geeks out from the cruisers at
Perl Whirl '02. Kinda reminded me of some scene from MIB where the
special agents had a deeper view of "travelers". The Geek Cruise folks
were obviously different to me than the remainder of the Holland
America clientele.

P.P.P.P.S. -- Perl Whirl '03 is coming. I had a great time on the '02
version. Check it out. I'd recommend it for folks with money or
budget. Great value. Great fun. Great learning/networking
opportunitiy. http://geekcruises.com/


Brian Ingerson <ingy at ttul.org> writes:

[...]

> For up-to-date information and links, please see the MOSS home page:
> 
>   http://moss.freepan.org/
> 
> Information from the home page is duplicated below. We look forward to
> seeing you at the first MOSS meeting! Please distribute this announcement to
> your user groups, friends and co-workers involved in open source. Everyone
> is welcome. If you have questions, please email Kevin Altis at the address
> below.
> 
> ka
> ---
> Kevin Altis
> altis at semi-retired.com
> http://altis.pycs.net/
> 
> ============================================================
> 
> The first MOSS meeting will be held at the Lucky Lab on May 3rd from 2-5 pm.
> This is your opportunity to meet other Open Source developers and advocates
> in Oregon. If you want to confirm that you're attending, please add your
> name to the Attendees page.
> 
>   http://moss.freepan.org/index.cgi?Attendees
> 
> WHO:
>   Anyone interested in Open Source in Oregon. We expect developers and
> advocates of well known projects like Apache, Linux, Perl, PHP, Python,
> Ruby, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, as well as lesser-known projects to attend.
> There will also be people involved in the Oregon Open Source bill (HB 2892)
> and the Personal Telco wireless project attending.
> 
> WHAT:
>   MOSS social. There will be a brief intro at the beginning, but otherwise
> this will be a social meeting without a fixed agenda. We will provide a
> white board and wiki to capture who attended and what projects they are
> involved in. Wireless connectivity will likely not be available at this
> first event. If we are able to arrange wireless for the event, we will post
> an update on this page.
> 
> WHERE:
>   Lucky Labrador Brew Pub (Directions)
> 
>   http://www.luckylab.com/lab_trans.html
> 
>   915 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
>   Portland, Oregon 97214
>   (503)236-3555
> 
> WHEN:
>   May 3rd, from 2-5 PM (Saturday afternoon)
> 
> WHY:
>   Meet other people working on Open Source projects in the Portland Metro
> Area. If you have an interest in promoting Open Source in Oregon or just
> want to find out what Open Source developers on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris,
> Windows, etc. are doing in Oregon then this is the place to be.
> 
> The Lucky Lab has food, beer, and wine (menu).
> 
>   http://www.luckylab.com/lab_menu.html
> 
> * * *
> Neither the Lucky Lab or organizers will be responsible for lost or stolen
> goods. We don't recommend that you bring any equipment unless you are
> willing to keep track of it yourself.
> * * *
> 
> 
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-- 
Michael R. Wolf
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