[NCLUG] Networking at the library.

[Daniel Miles]

Well, I work at the library and every so often I'll talk to some of the
people on the tech staff and here's the info I can give you:

2 out of 4 of the tech staff just left and there is no money to replace
them (when you're a sales-tax funded organization and people stop buying
things in a recession, you have no money).

Summery: they have no time. They're good people and they're probably not
ignoring you but they just haven't gotten around to it yet because
there's so much to do.

To expediate, you might want to talk to FRCC (they share the Harmony
library with FCPL) and possibly get *their* tech staff going... I know
that regular 4-year universities (at least the state funded ones) have
to have some sort of "community outreach programming." As far as I can
tell, this means that they have a budget to bring education/resources to
the community but they can't always think of a way to use it... It's
possible FRCC has such a program and you should talk to them too.

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:24, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> I was at the Harmony branch of the public library a few months ago and
> was asking around a bit about networking there.  They have a really nice
> meeting space there that would be perfect for install fests and the
> like, and should be much easier to deal with than trying to negotiate
> things with the CSU LUG.
> 
> They have networking in there, but only internal networking, which we
> couldn't use for any NCLUG meetings.  They've talked about setting up
> the ability for people to use the net there, but want to make the public
> part of the net segmented from the rest of the net.
> 
> I mentioned that NCLUG is a networking group and that my company does
> this sort of thing as part of it's business, plus many people in the
> group are very familiar with it.  I explained that we'd donate time and
> probably equipment to get it so that there was usable net at the
> library, but the person I was speaking to there couldn't have been less
> interested.  I left my card, but haven't heard a peep.
> 
> So, my question is wether there's interest in setting up the library
> such that we could more easily have regular install-fests, and if anyone
> has any contacts at the library that might take it more seriously.  Or
> perhaps some other ideas on how to approach it.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Sean