charter for LUG (Re: [NCLUG] i don't give a toss about ISPs)

[John L. Bass]

	John's suggestions for a local "home brew" club and something like SVNet
	sound GREAT to me!  I would like to be involved with both of them. 
	Robotics seems like too much fun to miss out on, and even though
	BattleBots isn't exactly robotics perhaps we could gradually move the
	competition in that direction.  Or start another one.  And the idea of a
	large group project sounds fun.

Sounds like we have several takers this time around for a home brew club. Any
project group size up to about 10 people seems to generally work depending on
the skills mix. We can target an initial meeting to get know each others faces,
skills levels, and map out some initial tutoring and basic intro projects to
bring everyone up to speed before tackling a harder project. If we manage to grow
above that count we can split into two project groups with balanced skills levels.

I have a ton of personal interests, and I'm very flexible to jump into helping
other people see their dreams come true too ... so think about what is fun for
you, and we can either reach concensus, or pick a project out of a hat to get
started. With several brains, most projects can be knocked out in a few weekends,
and played with till bored there after.

In the past I've found that these work best on Sunday afternoons or Friday nights
where we don't have the clock against our backs and can schedule enough time to
actually both chat and get something done.

Any objections to scheduling 1-6 on a sunday in the next couple weeks?

	And a "Northern Colorado Network" could be really useful.  I've learned
	some things during my software career that I'd like to share with
	others, and I like the prospect of benefiting from the hard won usable
	knowledge of others.  One thing I've learned is that the common "wisdom"
	and practice of industry (and academics, possibly) is frequently just so
	much bologna.  Propagating and refining more useful knowledge and
	practice would be a boon to the world.  (The Network should allow plenty
	of opportunity for personal and group debate to help with the "refining"
	part.)

I agree ... this level of skills swapping is what made SVNet successful.

	And for both groups, the meeting times should be set to accomodate
	people from the Denver area, Cheyenne, and Laramie.  UW has some pretty
	good engineering and software people.  And there are a few in Cheyenne,
	believe it or not.

	In other words, count me in, John!

	Bob Goates

have fun,
John