Hey y'all, Having utterly failed over the past year-and-some in my goal of getting regular Debian meet-ups going in the area, I've decided to try another tactic. Maybe some of you have used Doodle before - it's a really nice way to sift through options when you need to make a group decision, and IME is a good way to get input even from those who wouldn't otherwise be bothered to follow up to an email thread. :) http://doodle.com/twqfm4k6444dma49 Please ignore the dates on this poll, this is strictly to give us an idea of what day of week + time works well for people. Once we converge on something that works well for the group, we can talk about which week of the month we should pick to start doing standard meet-ups. As for where / what, my working assumption is that this will be a pub get-together of some sort; but I know we have at least one list subscriber who's under 21 and we may have others who aren't drinkers (or who are otherwise not fond of pubs?) and I want this to be inclusive, so if a pub is a bad idea for any reason, please let us know what would work better! BTW, to further entice you to participate in the doodle poll... I have told people repeatedly that I wouldn't consider trying to organize a DebConf in Portland so long as we couldn't even organize regular local meet-ups. Well, I'm just back from NYC and on a bit of a DebConf high, and putting in a Portland bid for DebConf 12 seems like a really swell idea, but again only if I can persuade myself that the local community will pull together behind such a thing. There are lots of other Debian folks in the US who would be willing to help out with a Portland DebConf, but there's a limit on how much they can do from afar. So if you think it would be neat to have DebConf in Portland, please regard the monthly beerings as a preliminary meeting of the DebConf local team and vote in the poll accordingly. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek(a)ubuntu.com vorlon(a)debian.org