[luau] HOSEF meeting tuesday?

[Ben Timmerman]

Warren sez
> Someone else mentioned that Electronic Pizza is on the 11th.  How 
> important do you feel it would be to make a linux showing there 
> and mention HOSEF?...Is this the type of venue that we should put our 
> effort into?
Absolutely!  As an afficionado of the Pizza meetings let me take a 
moment to give a short intro to their venue.  One is Cyber Pizza and 
the other is Electronics Pizza.  They meet respectively(or not) on the 
first two Tuesdays of each month at the Marine Sciences building(UH) in 
the auditorium on the ground floor at the makai/ewa corner of the 
building.

You can find out more about this culture by visiting 
http://www.cyberpizzahawaii.com.

The format is that even though the stated start is 6pm, somewhere just 
before 630, Courtney Brown stands, introduces himself, and welcomes 
everyone.  He briefly refers to the evening's speaker/topic.  He then 
gives everyone in the room a moment to identify themselves and say a 
word or two.  This can be as brief as a word of two for many but can 
become an advertisement for their business, a solicitation for 
employment, a solicitation to fill employment needs, a call to 
political arms, or a funny story.  Usually all of these categories are 
represented during this time.

The speaker is then introduced.  As the presentation begins, Courtney 
circles the room collecting $6 from each attendee who is interested in 
joining in the pizza/soda that will follow when the speaker is 
finished.  The speaker never, never goes beyond on hour...unless the 
pizza is late.  The pizza is served on the lanai out back where much 
kibitzing and business card exchanging goes on.  I'm usually leaving 
well before 830.

> I tried e-mailing the "eran at comtest.com" guy before about doing a 
> Linux talk at a future electronic pizza but received no reply.
While Eran Agman is the founder of this ad hoc organization some 17 
years ago and is always in attendance, Courtney(courtney at hula.net) is 
the current leader.  So definitely try Courtney also.

BTW Novell is sponsoring tomorrow nights meeting and, and I have never 
seen this at a previous pizza gathering, they are springing for the $6 
for each attendee...that's right, sports fans, the pizza and soda 
tomorrow night is free just for showing up.

The preceding was an unpaid political promotion for the "Free Pizza for 
Hawai`i" movement provided as a courtesy-Ben