Re: [Libreplanet-us-wa] stuff going on, and soliciting ideas

[Ian Kelling]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015, at 07:27 PM, Andrew Kane wrote:
> It's been a couple of weeks since the last FGSEA-ish meeting at Third
> Place. I don't intend that we should have another one this month unless
> someone else wants to and has ideas on what to talk about.
> 
> Since the last meeting I've made very little progress on starting the
> as-yet-unnamed organization I've been talking about. I have not
> forgotten, but I hope no one is in a hurry. This is a complex area in
> which I have no prior training. I'm assuming that everyone who reads
> this already knows what I'm talking about, but just in case: Free Geek
> Seattle is effectively dead, and I'm planning to start a different
> organization which will help it and other similar organizations to
> start. I'm currently thinking of using the name "Libremake" for this
> organization. Hopefully someone has a better idea?
> 
> I've also been remiss in answering emails and absent from the usual IRC
> channels. I have strained something in my back (or neck or shoulder,
> somewhere back there) which has made it difficult for me to type and to
> do other things.
> 
> Because of this injury I have delayed the bicycle trip which I had
> intended to re-attempt this month. If I am able, I will go out of town
> for approximately the week of the 15th through the 22nd. Through most of
> that time I will be out of the range of electromagnetic communication,
> so if you need to reach me you'll need a non-motorized vehicle or
> perhaps an alpenhorn. I will be back for SeaGL, and if I haven't healed
> soon enough I will not leave at all.
> 
> My presentation for SeaGL is taking longer than I would wish, but the
> delay (learning DocBook XML, which is more complex than I at first
> thought) will hopefully be worthwhile. The topic is "How to Start
> Contributing to FOSS Projects" and the talk is itself a Free Software
> Project under GPLv2. I hope some smarter folk than I am will contribute,
> because this is a 50 minute talk IIRC. There isn't much of anything
> there currently, but hopefully by the time anyone reads this I will have
> fleshed it out some.
> 
> I have a lot of other stuff going on. I apologize to anyone who has been
> waiting to hear back from me. If there's something I'm supposed to be
> doing for you, please feel free to remind me about it. Not everything
> gets into my calendar, and if it's not there I forget it.
> 

No worries man. I been pretty busy myself.