[SGVLUG] SGVLUG 20 Years Old in November

[Janet Reinhold]

Not sure what Scale is, as I am too new to even have come to a regular
meeting yet. In fact I may need someone to pick up the capsule from our shop
in Covina. You could display it, perhaps - it could be fun? And yes, if you
decided not to do one as a group, you could certainly raffle it off for some
$. I've found that some people really really want these, while others are
'ho hum' about them.

Saw the Simpsons/Futurama episode over the weekend; I would suggest no
half-eaten pb & j sandwiches such as Bart put in the one for Springfield!

In general, paper & the like fares better over time in storage than digital
media, physically, but I think it may be fun to put a small media player
inside along with any media, with instructions.

For display, sometimes the real thing is not entertaining enough. For the
Disneyland time capsule we did, they chose to show a 'time castle' which was
actually not the real thing, but it did capture the imagination better,
perhaps. One customer several years back put into one of our real time
capsules a hollowed-out monitor, filled with paper messages and such - it
had to have been fun to do.

Janet

-----Original Message-----
From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Rich Pinder
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 6:16 PM
To: sgvlug at sgvlug.net
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] SGVLUG 20 Years Old in November

Wild !   I was around in the early(er) days, may recognize SOME of the 
current members, and remember one fellow called John Riehl who was a great
resource as I learned about Linux and other stuff !

I think I saw a note that SGVLUG will have a table at Scale - might be a
good place for a printed graphic/sign announcing the milestone ?

Thanks Janet for this info

Rich Pinder
USC School of Medicine
On 1/16/2015 4:28 PM, Janet Reinhold wrote:
> Hard to believe it, but SGVLUG will be 20 years old this November.
> According to reliable sources, SGVLUG was founded by Gunther 
> Schleinkofer and other local Linux users on Nov. 11, 1995. We want to 
> put together some sort of event and early planning is always a good idea.
>
> I for one would like to have as many people who have been part of the 
> group through the years there as possible. So if you know of someone 
> who might be off list and still somewhat local, give them a heads up. 
> If you have any contact information for such people please send it to 
> me. And if you are going to SCALE, pass the word along to people you know
and see in passing.
> Thanks.