[SGVLUG] old meeting announcements

[James McDuffie]

I actually did crawl the Caltech archives some years ago before they
launched their Drupal site. 
http://www.sgvlug.org/archives.html

Taking one of your examples:
http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-29
It looks like Caltech lost some of their information when they imported
things to Drupal:
http://www.sgvlug.org/2009/03/12/march-2009-meeting/

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 07:00 PM, Claude A. Felizardo wrote:
> I just got an email from a new Caltech student who found my name listed 
> as the contact for when we were having meetings at Caltech.  In case 
> someone wanted to create a list of old meeting announcements for 
> whatever reason, I would think it should be relatively easy to walk the 
> old Caltech calendar website to pull this info out.
> 
> Various links:
> 
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-61 
> <-- may 11, 2006
> http://www.caltech.edu/master-calendar/event-sponsor/8999/2007 <-- 
> sgvlug events in 2006
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-2 
> <-- march 10, 2005
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/sgvlug-monthly-meeting-9 <-- lists Feb 9, 
> 2006 meeting
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/sgvlug-monthly-meeting-1 <-- lists Jan 
> 11, 2007 meeting
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-29 
> <-- March 12, 2009
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-46 
> <-- January 14, 2010
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-41 
> <-- Dec 8, 2011
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-66 
> <-- Oct 13, 2005
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-72 
> <-- Dec 13, 2012
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-monthly-meeting-73 
> <-- Oct 10, 2013
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/github-enterprise-jpl <-- Dec 12, 2013 -- 
> last meeting at Caltech?
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-linux-users-group <-- feb 10, 
> 2005 -- earliest announcement I can find.
> 
> Not clear on why the numbering seems to jump around but IIRC I would 
> sometimes clone past meeting announcements and they had gone through a 
> couple of updates on their web app or something and/or I had to create a 
> new general announcement which was then cloned for a while.
> 
> Strange that it only lists meetings when we were in Downs...
> 
> Ah, the above are entries that were created using the SGVLUG "sponsor" 
> that I had created.  If you search for just Linux, you'll find a few 
> more that Mike Rubel had posted when we were in Guggenheim -- looks like 
> oct 2003 to oct 14, 2004 but there are gaps where either no one was 
> submitting to the calendar or they lost data?
> 
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/sgv-linux-users-group-meeting <-- Oct 9, 
> 2003 ** wil wheaton's presentation ** posted by Mike
>      ** gap **
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-meeting 
> <-- April 8, 2004  -- generic posted by Mike
>      ** gap **
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-1 
> <-- oct 14, 2004 -- honeynet posted by mike
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-linux-users-group <-- Feb 20, 
> 1005 -- ploned posted by matti
> http://www.caltech.edu/content/san-gabriel-valley-linux-users-group-2 
> <-- march 10, 2005 -- linux movies posted by claude
> ...
> mostly continuous until dec 2013
> 
> I believe what had happened was Mike graduated but was still able to 
> submit announcements for a while but then moved on with his life.  I now 
> recall Mike warning people for several months that he was leaving 
> Caltech.  At some point Matti was trying to get access and was able to 
> submit at least once but then the people running the Caltech calendar 
> web app decided they would only accept submissions from someone 
> affiliated with Caltech so I took over in 2005 until I handed the touch 
> over to James early 2012 who kept it going until the last meeting which 
> I guess was in Dec 2013.
> 
> No sign of any of the meetings from when we were in Moore.  Perhaps that 
> predates current web app.  Anyone remember when the first meeting at 
> Caltech in Moore was and when we moved to Guggenheim?
> 
> In any event there's easily 8-9 years worth of meeting announcements 
> available for harvesting until they flush the old stuff or retire this 
> system.  I think this is a great treasure trove of at least topics we've 
> covered over the years.
> 
> Claude
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