[chiglug] Plans for January / February meetings and projects

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

Happy Holidays / almost ready to say Happy New Year!  : )  I hope
everyone is having a good run of holidays this year, and that you're all
doing well.

I wanted to see if folks had topics that they'd like to hear about or
would like to discuss for a meeting in January or early February.
Perhaps there are topics that you'd like to hear about or ones that
you'd like to discuss. If so, let us know, and we'll see about
organizing a meeting around those topics.

Also, if we find getting speakers difficult, Meg and I were thinking
that hackfest-type projects would work well for us at this time of year.
 Perhaps creating / modifying Ansible projects for user-focused
open-source projects would be an interesting and appropriate effort for
this group - Something that would help users set up their own OwnCloud,
Tor or VPN (or other . . . ) instances. Based on our groups' membership,
this seems to be a good effort for the group (we have people with solid
GNU/Linux skills, and people who are end-user and free-software focused
. . . ). This would be an effort / work-based project, and would require
some time / effort investment, but I think it could be a valuable effort
and would be a good way to apply our skills.

If you like this idea, let us know, but if there are other hackfest-type
projects that you have been kicking around in your head, feel free to
share them, too.

Cheers,

Jim