[SLUG] St. Pete Meeting Summary

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 00:50:28 EST


On the 29th of December, in the year two thousand and three,
people did assemble for the Saint Petersburg meeting
of the great Suncoast Linux User Group of Florida,
at the apointed place and at the apointed time.

As our comrade, Aaron Steimle had taken sick,
the author of this Summary did have to fill his shoes,
and be the Leaderperson.

Your author did miscalculate and arrive long before any sane
person would... However, luckily one Bill Lancaster [1]
was also early. Since there was much time before any
of the saner people would arrive, your author
did arrange the chairs in a glorious semi-circle,
while Sir Bill did gaze on in a most perplexed
way at this activity.

During the re-positioning of the chairs,
did arrive the scholarly fellow of Raed Salem,
whom is a fellow student of Saint Petersburg College,
and who was invited to the meeting by your author.
After exchanging greetings, the chair re-positioning did
begin again.

At last, the arrangement of the chairs was pleasing to the eye,
and practicle for the purposes required. Yet still did Sir Bill
and Sir Raed remain a-talking of various interesting
and technical things.

Then others arrived. Amoung the familiar faces were the two Johns
(Pedersen and Schatmeyer), Bob and Rob, Mario, James and his two
colleagues (whose names escape me), and Jack Frost.

There where a few new faces (aside even from Raed), as well,
with various levels of Linux wisedom, from the novice to the
familar. In fact, three of the new faces were not new to SLUG,
only new to Saint Petersburg meeting.
Your author humbly apologizes, but he doesn't remember these names very
well, so he will just describe them when he can't remember a name.

There was Omar Wing (spelling, unsure) and his wife,
a gentleman with an "I Read Your Email" T-shirt was present,
next to the lady who did demonstrate a Mac laptop
with Yellowdog Linux installed.

Let's see. There was the chap that found SLUG
via a google search, who seemed to be in good humor.
Them, there was the fellow who was on his second LUG meeting,
his first being in the lovely Tampa chapter.

The author of this piece promises to memorize all the names
of all those present at the next meeting.

Your author was informed by Sir John Schatmeyer
that this meeting marks the one-year aniversary of the first
Saint Petersburg of SLUG. Yet, there was no cake, nor pizza.

However, the next meeting just might, for there is talk
(which eminates from the mouth of your author)
about doing some kind of interesting presentation then.

Now, after all were assembled, the meeting began!
Your author, being in charge, felt it pertinent to
mention both the Tampabay.pm.org Perl Mongers group,
as well as the excellent, non-evil, legal source of
music that is magnatune.com.
Then there was a bit of Questions and Answers, followed by
the usual disorganized yet orderly conversations.

All being all, it was a fine meeting, and all present seemed to be
pleased. Your author was informed by a number of people that they
intended to return again.

Your author would like to thank all those that were present
for being there,
the entire SLUG group for existing, and the leprechauns.

[1] - I'm rather bad with names, so that may or may not be correct.

URLs:
  magnatune.com -- "We are not evil"
  tampabay.pm.org -- Tampabay Perl Mongers

-- 
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z.  X is work.  Y
is play.  Z is keep your mouth shut.
              -- Albert Einstein
[For some reason, I doubt that Einstein said that... But it is funny, no?]
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