[SGVLUG] History Lesson wanted...

[Claude Felizardo]

On 5/19/07, David Lawyer <dave at lafn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:40:13PM -0700, Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
> > This is mainly for David Lawyer and anyone else who has been involved
> > with SGVLUG (or SGVLLUG) for a long time -- I'd like to put up a
> > (potentially evolving) page on the history of our group -- way back from
> > where it started in Gunther's garage (or was it his living room?)
> > through the days at Fuller and so on.  (the "evolving" part would be
> > updated whenever we do something worthy of comment in the future... ;) )
>
> Although you asked that stuff be sent directly to you, I'm posting a
> "history" file that I wrote a couple of years ago to the list.
> There's more that need adding.  Here's my file:
>                         David Lawyer

[snip]

> At Fuller, there were sometimes problems with getting the room.  We
> were normally notified in advance that it would not be available and a
> substitute room was provided.  But then once we got there and found
> our meeting room locked with no one to let us in and no subsitute
> room.  We somehow held the meeting in sort of a lobby area in a nearby
> building.  Due in part to this meeting room problem it was decided to
> move the meetings to Mandrake Soft on N. Lincoln Ave. in Altadena.
> They offered us free use of their space.  The first meeting there was
> in April 2000.
>
> But later, Mandrake would not let the LUG meet there anymore so the
> LUG meetings moved to 070 Moore Hall at Caltech.  Unable to get this
> room anymore, the LUG moved to 101 Guggenheim in March 2002.

It was my understanding that Mandrake was allowing us to meet in a
part of the building that was vacant but either the space was leased
out or someone complained about all the evening visitors and using the
secured parking lot.

Anyone remember when we moved from Guggenheim to Downs?  The earliest
meeting announcement that I posted to the Caltech calendar was for the
March 2005 meeting.  From then I think I have a record of every
announcement and can provide that if needed.

claude