Michigan User Group

[Julian H. Stacey]

Perhaps better repost to list freebsd-user-groups@ not advocacy@
	http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-user-groups

"Michael W. Lucas" wrote:
> 
> Will's dad provided a place for us to meet regularly, and when Will
> left we lost that place.  The key to a successful user group is to
> have a place to meet consistently...

I started a BSD user group in Munich with the opposite view: A
previous BSD user group here had died a boring death partly because
IMO it kept meeting in the same boring small local bar.  The Munich
group http://berklix.org/bim/ we later created has been meeting in
a different restaurant every month for years now, (Indian, Greek,
Persian, Bavarian, Italian etc) & we're still doing that.

A few in Munich then wanted to meet in the same place every
month, & they splintered of.

We (BIM) decide where we're going by nominating & voting on our mail list,
hence people get to see who else is up for it this month etc.
To see how we do it
	http://berklix.org/bim/stammtisch/
If you need a mail list to co-ord it, I can give you one if no one nearer will.

> But, if someone wants to take point on getting a place in east or
> central SeMI, I'd show up.  That makes two of us.  :-)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:49:45AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> > Is anyone living in the metro detroit area and willing to revive 
> > SeMiBUG, or start a new? I read some -advocacy archives and it seems 
> > there hasnt been much talk about this since 2000. Formerly Will Andrews 
> > and Michael Lucas ran the show. since then, Will went on to attend 
> > purdue university, and is now living in colorado. I have not spoke with 
> > Michael in a while (May 2002) regarding this. At this point I am just 
> > probing for interest, and we can figure out the details after. Thanks
> > 
> > -- 
> > __________________________________________________
> > Frank Laszlo
> > System Administrator
> > The VonOstin Group
> > Email:  laszlof at tvog.net
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> 
> -- 
> Michael W. Lucas	mwlucas at FreeBSD.org, mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org
> 		http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
> 
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Julian Stacey.  Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich.  http://berklix.com
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