[Steering Committee] Re-restarting the JUG

Tue May 3 15:03:30 PDT 2022

Update:

  * I had lunch, and it was good, if a bit lonely.  :)
  * I haven't talked to anyone at Techlahoma yet, but I did look at
    their site and didn't find the info I needed. I'll ping Vance on
    Twitter or see if I can get logged on the Techlahoma Slack.
  * I got the login credentials for Twitter (thanks, Brent and Andres),
    and have gotten logged in. The account is now currently using one of
    my email addresses, but I think I'm going to switch that to some
    sort of "shared" address (likely one that forwards to several
    people?) to help make sure we don't lose access if I get hit by a
    bus. Fortunately, Andres is pretty good at crossing streets, so we
    dodged that one. 8-)
  * I also have access to the OKCJUG GitHub account. I need to look at
    it to make sure we have multiple admins for redundancy.
  * The okcjug.org website appears to be offline. I'm not sure why,
    when, or how long, but I'm working on it. I'm going to try to
    preserve existing content, but I think a static site generator is
    the direction we should go with it. Lighter, faster, more secure,
    and all in git.
  * I have a contact inside Red Hat for user group support. Going to
    touch base with her and see what goodies we might be able to get. :)
  * I haven't emailed the main list yet, but I hope to do that this
    week. No details yet, so just a teaser, but I'd like to get the word
    spreading.

Anything else?

On 4/19/22 12:49 PM, Chad Gorshing wrote:
> Hey Jason - I am interested in attending, but I have some things going 
> on around this time and might not be able to make it. But definitely 
> interested in what the outcomes are.
>
> Chad
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 9:27 PM Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>
>     Good evening! I'm sitting here in my hotel in Atlanta after the
>     closing of Devnexus 2022. I got to talk to several
>     friends/acquaintances that lead various JUGs to see how things are
>     going for them, and I'm re-enthused about restarting our JUG.
>     Several people have expressed interest in doing so, but nobody has
>     made the move to do so, therefore, if I may be so bold, I'm just
>     going to do it. Here's my plan:
>
>      1. Unless someone just REALLY wants to instead, I'm going to
>         appoint myself president and get this kick started. :)
>      2. I will reach back out to Techlahoma to see where things stand
>         on UGs these days and see if we can restart that relationship.
>      3. I'm going to pick a time and day of the week and start
>         planning sessions (this will depend both on the outcome of the
>         discussion above and my personal schedule :), most likely
>         presenting myself to help get things going.
>      4. I'd like to assemble a board to help govern things, but I know
>         people are busy, so I'm happy to press on alone if needed.
>         Please don't make me. :)
>      5. I am going to export the content of our old WordPress-based
>         site and rebuild it with a static generator (e.g., JBake or
>         Jekyll) and host it under an OKCJUG org on GitHub.
>      6. I will try to regain access to the OKCJUG GitHub and Twitter
>         accounts (*Brian Sheldon*: Do you remember the credentials for
>         either? You're the only other person I can think of that had
>         those).
>      7. I'm going to look at other JUGs and reach out to my contacts
>         there to see what other digital capabilities we may be lacking
>         and try to get those going.
>      8. Once details have started to come together, I'll email the
>         main JUG list to announce those details. I will likely,
>         though, make a teaser announcement in the coming days.
>      9. I will try to figure out what I've forgotten and do that too.
>
>     I am going to have lunch (hopefully not by myself :) at Jason's
>     Deli on NW Expressway at 11:30 on Wednesday (4/20) to discuss
>     these items with anyone interested. Lacking any negative feedback,
>     concerns, etc., I'm going to press on, so if you have any of
>     those, chime up here or come to lunch next Wednesday and harangue
>     me in person. :)
>
>     -- 
>     Jason Lee
>     http://jasondl.ee
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>     http://jasondl.ee/in
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