[ale] UPDATE on ALE North West // ALE_at_SPSU

[arxaaron]

On 2010/11/02, at 08:21 , Lightner, Jeff wrote:

> Easy to get to?!
>
> I drove around the campus for 15 minutes or so before giving up in
> disgust.   Maybe if you arrived before sunset it was easy but after
> sunset what little signage existed was impossible to read.   Even  
> once I
> found the parking deck it wasn't clear to me where the building was  
> from
> it as the one right next to it was clearly a dorm.  I decided I'll  
> have
> to scout it in daylight before the next meeting.

Sincerely sorry you had difficulties.  I used the campus map
PDF that Joshua linked to in his original invitation:
<http://www.spsu.edu/home/about/campusmap.html>
...though trying to read the tiny print on my copy in the
fading 7:10pm  twilight was challenging. :-P

I was able to find public parking in the large lot at the bottom
(south end) of the map next to the baseball diamond.

It's about a 100 yard trek from the end of that parking lot
to building "J" where the meetings are held.  There was
no overboard security to deal with getting onto the campus,
into the building and through the halls to the meeting room.
(J161 this last time).

I spoke to Joshua this afternoon and it looks like the SPSU
group is already planning on doing another meeting on
Thursday, November 11.   Formal notification and invitation
should be coming from Joshua shortly, but my understanding
is that this is an organizational and planning meeting about
getting some Linux study groups organized and setting a
regular schedule for general ALE NW @ SPSU meetings.
The format for those ALE SPSU meetings may be up for
discussion as well.

Again -- a good time for ALE members that are interested
in seeing a regular Northwest meeting to get involved.

peace
aaron



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> arxaaron
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:36 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Cc: Joshua Roberts
> Subject: [ale] UPDATE on ALE North West // ALE_at_SPSU
>
>
> On invitation from ALE's Joshua Roberts, I was honored to be able
> to share a rendition of our ALE "Introduction to Linux" OSPREX** at
> the first meeting of his new Linux User Group at Southern Polytechnic
> State University last Thursday (October 28).
>
> The venue was very nice and easy to get to, the meeting was very
> well attended and the presentation seemed very well received.
> The student body of SPSU was very diverse and struck me as
> quite well informed, judging from the energetic Q & A discussion
> surrounding many of the aspects of FLOSS and Linux that the
> presentation touched on.
>
> This is the second Linux User Group that Joshua has inspired
> and established on a Georgia Technical school campus, having
> consulted with ALE members last year in creating the Lanier Tech
> LUGNUTS.  Given the location of SPSU in the Marietta area
> and Joshua's experiences with our group, ALE is being invited
> to become an involved supporting organization of this new user
> group, even to level of  adopting it as the new ALE Northwest
> meeting, ALE NW @ SPSU.
>
> If you want to help Joshua in strengthening this ALE <> SPSU
> association and would like to see an Atlanta Linux Enthusiast
> presence reestablished for the northwest  Atlanta area , please
> contact: "Joshua Roberts" <jrtroberts at mindspring.com>
> cell:   770.314.0146
>
> Any support we can offer will be appreciated and input at this
> early stage can help them shape the scheduling, form and
> format of their meetings.  I think our ALE members stand to
> benefit as much from this cooperative connection as the
> students of SPSU will, so please consider getting involved.
>
> peace
> aaron
> ALE Event Coordinator (etc)
>
> ** with thanks to Stephen Blevins for his continuing
> development work on the ALE OSPREX
>
>
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