[Lopsa-regional-project] Ping: Upcoming news on LOPSA Regional Project

[Matt Disney]

On Sat, November 24, 2007 00:42, Bob Apthorpe wrote:
> In a burst of post-LISA motivation, I'm working with the LOPSA board to
> create a regional organization committee to help form and develop new
> chapters and affiliates. Part of the committee's purpose is to find out
> how the national organization can help regional groups and vice versa.
> This note is a quick heads-up to anyone interested in helping with the
> project.

Hi, Bob et al.

I'm not very knowledgeable about such things, but I will be glad to give
feedback and help make things happen.

I'm starting to talk up a local LOPSA-ish kind of thing for Knoxville,
Tennessee. Currently we're discussing what our initial target audience should
be. On one hand, it could be UNIX/Linux oriented and we could try to do that
very well. On the other hand, we could be very general IT admin at first
(windows, unix/linux, network, security, full-timers, part-timers, "Holy crap
yesterday I was the ordering clerk and now I'm the server admin", etc.) and
then proceed (perhaps in segmented communities) based on feedback and interest
from a wider group of people.

If anyone has any thoughts on that, I'd be glad to hear them.

Thanks,
Matt