Hey Y'all,
So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and I've been thinking more about venues.
Kupros has good food and cold beer but I think there is general agreement that it's too friggin loud. Also there is no facility to do presentations.
Way way back in the before times I used to attend an open mic night at Sactown union brewery. In the interim it's name changed to Tower brewing, which then closed and was taken over by another brewing company and is now called Highwater brewing company.
The front of the venue features a little stage-let with, (IIRCC) a white backdrop and some facilities for projection. While the establishment has no kitchen, they did(at least 3 years ago) have an agreement for pizza delivery from a local pizza place.
Even though they have changed names 3 times and now have completely different owners, the fact that they are still doing the same types of meetups as they were 3.5 years ago gives me hope that the venue/logistics haven't changed much.
I'll be doing some reconnaissance sometime this week, and am curious to see if anyone has any other suggestions for venues.
sen-h.
Wow, this is almost comical. I did another search for highwater brewing just to check their hours and found this:
https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2023/11/27/high-water-brewing-cl...
This was published TODAY.
I guess they'll be closing up shop by the end of the year...
Oh well.
Anyone got any other ideas?
sen-h.
On November 27, 2023 4:19:38 PM PST, Sen Hastings sen@hastings.org wrote:
Hey Y'all,
So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and I've been thinking more about venues.
Kupros has good food and cold beer but I think there is general agreement that it's too friggin loud. Also there is no facility to do presentations.
Way way back in the before times I used to attend an open mic night at Sactown union brewery. In the interim it's name changed to Tower brewing, which then closed and was taken over by another brewing company and is now called Highwater brewing company.
The front of the venue features a little stage-let with, (IIRCC) a white backdrop and some facilities for projection. While the establishment has no kitchen, they did(at least 3 years ago) have an agreement for pizza delivery from a local pizza place.
Even though they have changed names 3 times and now have completely different owners, the fact that they are still doing the same types of meetups as they were 3.5 years ago gives me hope that the venue/logistics haven't changed much.
I'll be doing some reconnaissance sometime this week, and am curious to see if anyone has any other suggestions for venues.
sen-h.
A Starbucks near me (in Nevada, alas) has an alcove with a long conference table and chairs. Perhaps someone has seen a similar arrangement somewhere in Sacramento? Chocolate Fish near the Crocker Gallery? That reminds me: the North Bay LUG used to have its meetings at the offices of O'Reilly Media in Sebastopol. Later, they moved to Sonic's offices in Santa Rosa. Maybe there's a tech company or ISP that would be into hosting Saclug? Brian, is Lugod still a thing, or is it moribund? I miss chillin' with fellow geeks!
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 03:51:59PM +0000, Allan Heim wrote:
A Starbucks near me (in Nevada, alas) has an alcove with a long conference table and chairs. Perhaps someone has seen a similar arrangement somewhere in Sacramento? Chocolate Fish near the Crocker Gallery? That reminds me: the North Bay LUG used to have its meetings at the offices of O'Reilly Media in Sebastopol. Later, they moved to Sonic's offices in Santa Rosa. Maybe there's a tech company or ISP that would be into hosting Saclug? Brian, is Lugod still a thing, or is it moribund? I miss chillin' with fellow geeks!
Back when I was still down in California, LUGOD was meeting regularly at either the public library, or Explorit Science Center (a classroom there).
I think we ended up switching back and forth a lot because LUGOD's general meetings were on Mondays at that point (social gatherings on Tuesdays), and therefore landed on a lot of holidays. (Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968) IIRC, they stopped allowing groups to meet after hours, and thus could no longer meet there on holidays, or keep going after 9pm closure on non-holidays. Hence, bouncing back and forth between there & Explorit.
Also, you couldn't book the library more than 3 months in advance, and someone would have to stay on top of things or another group would swipe the room out from under us. :-D So, while it was free and convenient and comfortable (and had lots of curious passers-by peeking in and maybe joining us), there was a "cost": constantly having to keep on top of things, and eventually that locale bouncing. :-|
As for LUGOD these days, the previous president, Timothy Thatcher, ended up moving out of state as well. No one has stepped up to take over running the group, and sadly it looks like the last official meeting was just prior to the pandemic (late 2019). They have a Discord (and I think still an IRC channel, plus the mailing lists, which are probably in need of some modernization [*]) if anyone wants to hop over and try to breathe some life in the group!
[*] I recall when a ton of ucdavis dot edu email addresses got auto unsubscribed due to some new configuration requirement that's way beyond my understanding. Gmail addresses too, I think? Basically, a lot of folks who used to be on 'vox' and 'vox-tech' and so on got dropped, and probably didn't even realize. <anguish>
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 03:51:59PM +0000, Allan Heim wrote:
A Starbucks near me (in Nevada, alas) has an alcove with a long conference table and chairs. Perhaps someone has seen a similar arrangement somewhere in Sacramento? Chocolate Fish near the Crocker Gallery?
That reminds me: the North Bay LUG used to have its meetings at the offices of O'Reilly Media in Sebastopol. Later, they moved to Sonic's offices in Santa Rosa. Maybe there's a tech company or ISP that would be into hosting Saclug?
Brian, is Lugod still a thing, or is it moribund? I miss chillin' with fellow geeks!
Allan,
How is Nevada?!
The Starbucks in Sac and (Peet's) close pretty early.
Lugod still exists in IRC. Tim moved to Denver and Will is maintaining the PO Box, yet I haven't seen any interest from him to hold a meetup.
I have been going to the NBLUG meetings and I think they even made me a board member. The former president of NBLUG stepped down and the current president stepped in seemingly reluctant. Therefore, NBLUG meets at Redwood Cafe in Cotati. It's a little less noisy than the Kupro's, yet it closes at 9pm. I flew to the meeting in September. I flew into Petaluma airport.
I live a short distance from Kupro's, so I am pretty happy with it, despite the noise. I guess I am not doing a very good job recruiting new people! This has probably been my downfall with SacLUG.
Brian
Rural Nevada is all right, different than California, but it has its charms. All this discussion got me to searching and it turns out that somebody started a LUG in Carson City a year ago, so that's great.
Lugod still exists in IRC. Tim moved to Denver and Will is maintaining the PO Box, yet I haven't seen any interest from him to hold a meetup.
That's too bad. I hope Tim is feeling better. Miss you, Bill!
NBLUG
I would never have thought of flying in, that's brilliant. Maybe I should check out flights to Sacto via Reno to attend meetings.... I'm glad NBLUG is still going on. Next time I'm in the area, I'll try to drop in to a meeting. See ya! Allan
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Hey Y'all, So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and
Sen,
I think you fixed all the kinks in the SacLUG site? My first look is yes?!
I hate to nit pick, yet the slug seems a little closer to Santa Cruz?
Next challenge is to figure out how to sync it (rsync) to the saclug site. I don't have a shell on the site. I just have sftp.
Brian
I just did another big commit where I swapped out the snail with the tuxTomato logo of yore, lemme know what you think.
sen-h. On November 28, 2023 10:56:13 AM PST, "Brian E. Lavender" brian@brie.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Hey Y'all, So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and
Sen, I think you fixed all the kinks in the SacLUG site? My first look is yes?! I hate to nit pick, yet the slug seems a little closer to Santa Cruz? Next challenge is to figure out how to sync it (rsync) to the saclug site. I don't have a shell on the site. I just have sftp. Brian
That looks great! I liked the snail idea, yet it just seemed like Santa Cruz got there first. I see you found tux with the tomato! Bill Kendrick created that for us a while back!
I think I recall trying to get slug.org in 1998.
I put it on my local server for preview.
Yet, I need to figure out how to upload/rsync across sftp.
Brian
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 03:37:09PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
I just did another big commit where I swapped out the snail with the tuxTomato logo of yore, lemme know what you think.
sen-h.
On November 28, 2023 10:56:13 AM PST, "Brian E. Lavender" [1]brian@brie.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Hey Y'all, So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and
Sen, I think you fixed all the kinks in the SacLUG site? My first look is yes?! I hate to nit pick, yet the slug seems a little closer to Santa Cruz? Next challenge is to figure out how to sync it (rsync) to the saclug site. I don't have a shell on the site. I just have sftp. Brian
References
- mailto:brian@brie.com
Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts@bigbrie.com To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave@bigbrie.com
I mirrored the site using lftp. I updated the README to reflect the instructions. The only thing that we are missing is Dave's sponsorship for the web hosting.
Brian
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:59:00AM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
That looks great! I liked the snail idea, yet it just seemed like Santa Cruz got there first. I see you found tux with the tomato! Bill Kendrick created that for us a while back!
I think I recall trying to get slug.org in 1998.
I put it on my local server for preview.
Yet, I need to figure out how to upload/rsync across sftp.
Brian
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 03:37:09PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
I just did another big commit where I swapped out the snail with the tuxTomato logo of yore, lemme know what you think.
sen-h.
On November 28, 2023 10:56:13 AM PST, "Brian E. Lavender" [1]brian@brie.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Hey Y'all, So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and
Sen, I think you fixed all the kinks in the SacLUG site? My first look is yes?! I hate to nit pick, yet the slug seems a little closer to Santa Cruz? Next challenge is to figure out how to sync it (rsync) to the saclug site. I don't have a shell on the site. I just have sftp. Brian
References
- mailto:brian@brie.com
Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts@bigbrie.com To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave@bigbrie.com
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