[PLUG] PLUG February 2nd In-Person Meeting Soft Announcement

[Kevin Williams]

Hi,

Thank you for organizing this Michael. I am find with contributing $5 for each PLUG in-person meeting I attend if the venue asks. Meeting with other open source enthusiasts is worth at least that much to me. I do not like the idea of wearing a mask these days. But it is in my interest to do it, so that you feel safe enough to keep volunteering in this or a similar capacity for PLUG in the future.

Would 30 minutes early be 6pm? What is the address again?

Yes, it's time to give https://pdxlinux.org a new look (and ideally auto-redirect to https). I definitely recommend a static site generator. A solid list is available at https://jamstack.org/generators 

Hugo is the popular elephant in the room and has been used to great affect at https://github.com/JupiterBroadcasting/jupiterbroadcasting.com 

I'm curious about something smaller and permissively licensed, such as the ISC-licensed just ~500-lines-of-code https://mkws.sh 

Whatever generator you choose, I bet you could get a lot of help with the site if you host the .md files in a git repo and consider pull requests from the community.


Are you satisfied with current setup and cost of hosting, domain, and email for PLUG?

Let us know how we can help.

Thanks,
Kevin

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023, at 4:45 PM, Michael Dexter wrote:
> Tap tap... is this thing on?
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I have confirmed the venue in Hillsdale and am awaiting final speaker 
> confirmation. I hope to post all details shortly.
> 
> Topic: Zoneminder from an extremely-knowledgeable local presenter
> 
> 
> Some facts, policies, and requests:
> 
> I would appreciate a person or two to arrive 30 minutes in advance to 
> help with chairs.
> 
> The venue officially wants payment but, full disclosure, supposedly PLUG 
> has unclaimed donations with the State of Oregon. I have started the 
> paperwork to find out more about this. Regardless of what the venue 
> eventually costs, I will pass round a hat for donations for the center 
> as I am very involved with it and trust me, things like new carpet would 
> be nice. Every bit helps.
> 
> We CAN have food and beverages there if that is of interest to people. 
> There are table available but I do not think we want to drag them out.
> 
> There is a Hillsdale McMenamins and food cards at the nearby high school 
> that might still be open but how about "bring something if you like, 
> clean it up if you spill it".
> 
> As if those topics are not controversial enough, let's talk masks.
> 
> My last two in-person tech conferences and two upcoming ones have strict 
> masking and testing policies. They also kindly provide both quality 
> masks and tests. We all want COVID-19 to be over and how about we 
> continue to take steps toward that goal.
> 
> Until further notice, I would like to enforce a mask policy for everyone 
> but the active speaker, following the example of my recent conferences. 
> I will bring a few sealed masks for those who need them and I am doing 
> my best to have a streaming option for those who cannot risk any 
> exposure or profoundly object to the mask policy.
> 
> 
> That all said, I have begun updating the web site and will keep filling 
> in the various little bits that need to take place behind the scenes.
> 
> Please check the site to see if I missed any of the softPLUG meetings in 
> the Past Meeting Topics. Speaking of the site... it's dated as heck. I 
> prefer keep it static but I will not rule out using a site generator or 
> a SUPER modular HTML5 template. I am looking or one for another project 
> but I am open to suggestions of a strategy that can last another decade 
> or so.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Michael Dexter
> PLUG Volunteer
>