Oops, sorry LUGers, after sending the post to the mailing list I forgot to update the website. We are indeed having our meeting tonight. See below.

2011 is here and we are beginning the new year by having our January meeting in a new location. If you have been following the discussion on the discussion list you will have seen all debate over potential locations.

This month we will be at Converge Coworking in Union NJ. Google map link below. Our member Nick Barter will be hosting the meeting and will be on site by 6:30PM. In case you need to reach him regarding the meeting his cell number is 201-370-3219.

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Happy new year everyone, hope to see you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

I got to take a look at the NYI facility at 999 Frontier Road in Bridgewater. They have several spots that they have offered for us to use.

They graciously had one of the admins there show me around the place.

The main location is a presentation room with a projector, along with several tables, folding chairs, and plenty of space to expand. I’ve put the pictures up on the website here.

I think that it is a good location, the only problem being that it is out of the way for most of the members of the group. Any comments?

Our annual holiday meeting will be the 29th. The plan is to meet in Hackensack at 7PM and then proceed to T.G.I. Fridays in Hackensack (just a couple miles away) at 8PM where we can finish with some holiday festivities. Please remember that this is our ultimate 235 Moore Street meeting. We really need you all to be looking into an alternate location for us to be able to meet at going forward. Hopefully we can use this last meeting of the year to solidify a plan for the future. Happy holidays, see you on the 29th.

T.G.I. Fridays directions below:

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We’re on for tonight. Everyone should have received the meeting announcement via the new GNU/Mailman announcement list. There are plenty of Linux related news items recently that could come up tonight or you can just bring your Linux questions and we’ll find some answers.

If for some reason you usually get the meeting announcement and did not get one for this month, we can sort that out tonight.

Mike

I’d like to apologize for some of the lack of communication within the group.

Our withdrawal from having an event on SFD was mainly due to a lack of communication on my part, or more correctly, misdirected communication.  I’d like to improve that communication within the user’s group, but I’ll need your help to do it.  I was posting quite a few messages to the blog on the web site, but it appears that it went largely unnoticed.  What might be the best way to proceed going forward.

How would you like to be informed of upcoming events, meeting announcements, and coordination for group events?  If any of these seem unfamiliar, I’ll be doing a demonstration of these at the next meeting.

a)  Mailing lists – either the usual monthly announcement, or perhaps a new list for more frequent traffic
b)  Identi.ca – a microblogging service like twitter, which is opt-in, and allows fast, public communication between people, as well as broader reach.
c)  njlinux.org website – it has universal reach, but thusfar, has not gotten a lot of traction within the group.
d)  RSS feeds – primarily of the web site, and the identi.ca stream, this can be an easier way of getting information from b) and c)
e)  Other suggestions:  I’m open to other means of communication.

Please email your answer and suggestions to murph , or in the comments here, and I’ll bring and discuss the results at the next meeting.  If you’d like for your name to not be mentioned at the meeting, just let me know in the message.
More importantly, I’d like to try to coordinate some of the above, like having the identi.ca stream go to the website, and vice-versa, and maybe a weekly digest of the posts from either go out to the mailing list.  Suggestions would be great.

I’d like to do a quick demo of all of these technologies, and have a group discussion of them, at the next meeting, and try to come to a consensus as to what to do going forward.