[Penguinheads] Any LinuxDojo, this Saturday, May 3?

[Rick Moen]

I'm guessing Tim might be out of town(?), so am left wondering whether
I'd find a closed door if I drove or biked over.  (Say, we could have a 
party in Tim's driveway, anyway....  ;->  )

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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 23:32:03 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: Timothy Tuck <tek at pervasivenetwerks.com>
Subject: LinuxDojo?

Hi, Tim.  This Saturday, May 3, is on my calendar as a LinuxDojo day.
Looking at the http://www.linuxdojo.net/ Mambo site, I see that this
claim is somewhat confirmed:  

  "The dojo meets at 1pm the first saturday of each month." 
(front page, right side)

However, the Calendar of Events (separate iCal pages) don't have
anything for that date.  So:

1.  Ya meetin'?  Would you look surprised and confused if I bicycled 
up and brought one of our home-made jars of plum jam for you?

2.  It happens that I already know of the existence and location of the
Penguinheads mailing list.  That's fortunate, because I can't seem to
find any hyperlink to it from the Mambo site.  News item "New Schedule
for Linuxdojo" (2007-11-30) includes the suggestion "If your interested
in joining in, please start by joining the mailing list. :\)", but
doesn't bother saying where the mailing list _is_.  Er, I think that
needs fixing.

3.  Also, the Mambo site doesn't actually give the street address for
your meetings, either.  Maybe that's deliberate?  I.e., maybe you want
to talk to people before they drop in?  If so, you should IMO at least
say something about that on the site, instead of leaving it mysterious.

4.  Reading the Penguinheads list archive, I see some postings from you
about meetings as late as last year.  None so far this year, I think.
_Maybe_ the expectation is supposed to be that people should subscribe,
then wait for you to post a message saying there will be a dojo, and
only _then_ show up?  It's a little unclear.

Anyhow, the Web site suggests regular 1st-Saturday 1pm meetings.  If
that's not true, you might want to change that.

Part of the reason this has suddenly come up is that I recently fixed
BALE (http://linuxmafia.com/bale/), and want to make sure what it claims
about LinuxDojo is correct.  Thus my questions.  Thanks!

(I see you're playing with Joomla and like it.  How's that going?)

P.S.:  My MTA initially refused to talk to lists.linuxdojo.net because
that machine doesn't accept mail to "postmaster".  You should arrange to
accept mail to that account and "abuse", as they're RFC-required.
(References to prove that are available, if you need 'em.)

-- Rick M.

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