thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (01/12/90)
My apologies if you've already seen this, but PORTAL's been having some problems with USENET subscriptions recently and it's not clear my original posting made it out; I've checked ``news'' on 2 other systems and nada (and already articles dated Jan.12 have appeared). ---------------------------------------- NOTICE: the BADGE meeting scheduled for Jan.17, 1990 at Foothill College and featuring Jim Mackraz discussing the 1.4 Amiga Operating System has been temporarily delayed. Apparently classes for the Winter 1990 quarter at Foothill have been fully subscribed and there simply is no available room (at Foothill); this news just arrived a few hours ago this afternoon (Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1990). I've already both called (and left message on answering machine) and FAX'd Dawn Dobbs (at the San Jose Mercury News) to pull the article scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 14, 1990; Dawn works from 5am to 12noon daily (is that why she's named ``Dawn'' ?? :-) and I hope it's not too late. If the article does appear this Sunday, please disregard it. And spread the word to others who might not have Usenet access. People "behind the scenes" are working as this message wends its way throughout Usenet to secure other arrangements for the January BADGE meeting. Stay tuned for late-breaking news as it happens. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy) (01/13/90)
In article <25846@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: > NOTICE: the BADGE meeting scheduled for Jan.17, 1990 at Foothill College > ...has been temporarily delayed. Damn. And I was planning on driving out from 'Jersey :-). ... Is it possible to restrict such meeting notices to the appropriate area?
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (01/15/90)
doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy) in <7345@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> writes:
" Damn. And I was planning on driving out from 'Jersey :-).
... Is it possible to restrict such meeting notices to the appropriate
area?
"
pertaining to the BADGE meeting postponement announcement.
This type of message surfaces about once a year, so for the benefit of
those who are new to Usenet and to comp.sys.amiga.*, I'll present a brief
summary of why these postings are a Good Thing(tm). :-)
The Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE (BADGE) is an organization of serious
hardware and software developers for the Amiga computer. The charter is to
promote and facilitate the development of new Amiga products by providing a
forum for communication between developers.
Many of the people who attend BADGE only read comp.sys.amiga.tech. The IEEE,
ACM, ACL, AIAA, etc. tech journals also list meeting notices since those are
the only journals their members read.
Many attendees come from out-of-state and out-of-USA (e.g. West Chester,
Lowell (MA), Europe, etc.) and are unable to see restricted distribution
articles or local-newspaper announcements.
BADGE attendance (probably) comprises the largest gathering of Amiga
developers in the world outside of the DevCons; the Amiga itself was
developed here (Silicon Valley; Los Gatos, CA) by several BADGE members.
Among the regularly-attending (ex-)Amiga members are included Dale Luck,
Jim Mackraz, Rob Peck, Neil Katin, Carl Sassenrath, Bob "Kodiak" Burns, etc.
Other casually-attending (ex-)Amiga members include Jay Miner, Bart Whitebrook,
RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, etc.
The list of commercial developers attending reads like the list of products
available for the Amiga.
Get the picture? :-)
Thad
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt) (01/19/90)
In article <7345@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy) writes: >In article <25846@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >> NOTICE: the BADGE meeting scheduled for Jan.17, 1990 at Foothill College >> ...has been temporarily delayed. > >Damn. And I was planning on driving out from 'Jersey :-). >... Is it possible to restrict such meeting notices to the appropriate area? I don't know much of the mechanics of USENET, but would it be possible to set up a mailing list to distribute BADGE meeting information? I can tell you from being there myself, that not one person showed up between 7:10 and 8PM weds night (I think I look like the fool, now). Mailing lists exist already for low bandwidth groups. BADGE meetings would be a great candidate. Pre-release rules for BKDC's could be sent out for comment over this channel, also. Usually I'd read all them amiga.tech messages, but last weekend it was "let's play rewrite the device loader" for my hard disk; a unsuccessful attemp, but I digress... I'm off to school soon, and I'm not sure of my hookups. A mailing list could be good as it would send messages directly, and no one would have to screen out the noise from the important info. This could be a great gain for FIDOnet'ters, too. Perhaps a gateway to MCI and compu$erve might even occur....! People in 'Jersey could even find out what is happening in the _real_ world of computers :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) --- "I have a dream..." Martin Luther King, Jr. --- brian witt USENET: well.sf.ca.usa!aleks
doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) (01/22/90)
In article <15573@well.UUCP> aleks@well.UUCP (Brian Witt) writes: >I don't know much of the mechanics of USENET, but would it be possible >to set up a mailing list to distribute BADGE meeting information? [...] >Mailing lists exist already for low bandwidth groups. Apparently you have two aims with this. The first seems to be agreeing that these notices shouldn't be posted widely, which is pointless (A) in light of Thad's reply on the subject, (B) because these notices are infrequent enough that it's idiotic to worry about it, and (C) because the discussion on the subject has already created enough volume to wholly overshadow the original notice. Your second aim seems to be to request direct notification because you can't always read the group. This sounds reasonable, and anyone who wants to can create a mailing list simply by mailing to a list of people any time they feel like it. Request this at the next BADGE meeting, maybe you can convince someone to do so. Doug -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary