[Tuxaloosa] [BALU] 2012 SouthEast LinuxFest -- Venue

[Cameron Purvis]

Is the geography appropriate?  By that I mean is BHM in an appropriately
centered location for this?

There's not really much west of us that would pull people in unless we have
decent population up from Hattiesburg or Jackson/Meridian.  Maybe
Chattanooga?



On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:44:18 -0400
> georgia_tech_swagger <georgia.tech.swagger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Howdy folks.   The SouthEast LinuxFest is looking at 6 potential
> > venues throughout the Southeast.   Please vote for your preference
> > here:
> >
> > http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/poll/selfs-2012-venue
> >
> > One of the big concerns the SELF organizers have with holding an event
> > outside of the footprint of UCLUG is volunteers.    It takes alot of
> > volunteer effort to pull the event off, and the lion's share of that
> > comes from the local LUG.   If the event were in Birmingham, could we
> > count on a nice healthy sized group of volunteers from BALU?
>
>
> I don't claim to speak for the SELF organizers, but as someone who
> was there in the beginning, and but for the birth of a child, would
> have been in the middle of things every year (I missed 2010), the
> perceived lack of help is the major reason why I did not vote for
> BHM.  I don't mean that as a criticism of anyone - if that's what
> it is, then it's more of a criticism of me than anyone else - it's
> just we aren't typically very active.
>
> That being said, if there are enough of you guys (and girls) in
> BHM willing to work your butts off to make it happen, then I will
> certainly be willing to burn up the road between Tuscaloosa and
> BHM to help in any way I can.  I suspect some of the other folks
> in Tuscaloosa will also be willing to help out (so I'm CC'ing our
> TLUG list).
>
> I think it would be good for BHM to host SELF-2012, and I'd certainly
> welcome the (lack of) driving time relative to SC, so if there are
> enough of us willing to make it happen, I'm game.  :)
>
> -RW
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