[ale] ALE forward

[Jim Kinney]

All,

I need to follow up on the notice at the cookout of my intent to step away
from ALE by January 2017.

I'm a really crappy organizer. I've got offers for assistance that I lose
track of (thanks Mark!). I don't make/have the time to chase down speakers.
I've got a standing offer from our hosting guy to get a new system and I've
not been able to afford the time to coordinate the migration for 2 years
when I don't forget about it entirely. The website really needs a rework
and I stink at design.

ALE can do better with someone else "running things". I really don't run
things. I'm more of a place holder who is rather calendar and clock
challenged.

As ALE first splintered into the multiple compass groups about a decade
ago, I saw it as going through it's early death throes.  It is now
reorganizing into a larger, yet more dispersed group with the ALE umbrella
of the former GA-400 and the NE, SW and Central and the student
affiliations at area schools. JD had the vision for the current process
thanks in large part to his affiliation with the GA400 group and seeing to
natural overlap.

We have a Central meeting in 2 weeks. No speaker yet as usual. I do have a
speaker for Sept!

Is it possible to have an ALE organizers meeting one hour before the
regular meeting so we can get some ideas together? Or should this _be_ the
August meeting? I'm fine with either or both.

What we need to discuss is:

What needs to happen to transition away from Jim's tenuous grasp of the ALE
strings?
What does ALE want to look like in 2, 5, 7 years?
What can be done to make ALE the central, non-distro specific locus of all
thing Linux in the metro Atlanta area, Georgia, SouthEast, global
domination co-chairs with the Linux Foundation where Steve Balmer plunges
the toilets after parties? (I can dream, can't I?)
What do we need to do to more formally organize so ALE can be effective at
it's mission?
What _IS_ the mission of ALE?

I'm certain I've left off people that should get this directly so I'm also
using the full mailing list to make sure it gets where it needs to go. If
your name isn't at the top of the list it's only because my brain is swiss
cheese for names. My apologies.
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