[CVALE] No More Tuesday Meetings

[Kristian Hoffmann]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:56 -0800, Terry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At the CVALE monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 12th, we decided not to continue the regular 
> monthly meetings.  The meetings that had been held on the second Tuesday each month starting at 7 pm 
> at Sciabica &  Sons on Yosemite in Modesto are no more.
> 
> The primary factors in this decision was lack of attendance at the meetings and lack of a meeting 
> agenda (presentations).

I've been pondering the increasing lack of participation in meetings and
installfests for quite some time.  The best I can come up with is the
relative ease in which Linux can be installed these days, as well as an
explosion of online resources in the form of blogs, forums, and howtos.
It used to take a relatively Linux savvy person to configure a ppp
dialer, get X to not destroy your monitor, and spend the 8 hours
compiling the latest CVS version of GNOME from source.  That's just not
the case anymore, for better or for worse (mostly better I think).

At this point IMHO, without the influx of Linux n00bs that we once had,
CVALE exists mostly as a social club.  That's not necessarily a bad
thing, as I've enjoyed the time at the installfests helping people and
chatting with Eric, Pete, Dan, Terry, etc.  But, it's hard to maintain a
group and get people motivated with such a small attendance.

> Many thanks to Nick for providing a meeting place for CVALE over the last few years.

Yes, thank you Nick, and everyone who has contributed to CVALE in one
way or another.

> We plan on continuing to meet one Saturday a month at Fire 2 Wire in Salida to work on miscellaneous 
> technical issues members are having and other "hands on" activity.  We figure that meeting once a 
> month on Saturday is appropriate for CVALE as it stands now.
> 
> Since we only have the Saturday "hands on" meeting now, it is possible to change this to a Saturday 
> other than the fourth Saturday of the month if desired.  Any changes in the Saturday schedule would 
> have to be approved by Kristian of course.

I have no other engagements on any Saturday of the month.  We can
discuss the future/format of the Saturday meeting/installfests at the
January meeting.  Please note that there is no December meeting.

> I believe our CVALE.org web site will be updated in the near future to reflect the cancellation of 
> our Tuesday meetings.

Happy Holidays, and a Merry Christmas everyone!

Regards,

-Kristian