Unix Unanimous

[Colin McGregor]

"Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> sent me a private
e-mail asking for information about Unix Unanimous
group, and as this should be of some general interest
on the list, I thought it would be best to answer
publicly.

Unix Unanimous has a website that notes time/place of
next meeting here:

   http://www.unixunanimous.org/

In summary, normally 2nd Wednesday of each month, room
PT 266 of the D. L. Pratt Building, 6 King's College
Road (near the intersection of College and St. George,
part of the University of Toronto's main downtown
campus).

The meeting format is fairly simple, at the start of
the meeting a numbering scheme will be decided
(normally something silly, like prime numbers, or
cities with a King and a Queen Street, or...). Then
each person will be asked three questions:

 - Your name?
 - What (if any) organization do your represent?
 - Do you have question(s) for the board?

If someone has a question (or questions) for the board
they will be asked to supply a number in the
previously decided numbering scheme (which can make
life hard for late arrivals :-) ) and their
question(s). Once everyone has been introduced, and a
bunch of questions are on the board, the moderator
(ALMOST always D'Arcy Cain, but in June it was me :-)
), will go through the questions in an order decided
by the moderator (simple easy questions TENDING to be
dealt with first, difficult and/or controversial
questions TENDING to be answered last). Late arrivals
will be asked the same three questions noted above,
and it is a bit of a game to see late arrivals attempt
to figure out the numbering scheme :-) . While Linux
does come up in questions/discussions the focus tends
to be on the *BSDs and commercial Unixes such as
Solaris.

The idea at UU being that you learn from other
people's problems. Normal turnout at the meetings is
10-15 people.

Once the questions are dealt with the group will in
very large part head out over to the "Real Thailand"
restaurant (350 Bloor Street West) where discussions
will continue over food. What is currious is that
since people know that after the meeting folks go to
"Real Thailand" I have seen more Unix fans at the
restaurant than at the meeting proper. The restaurant
has a website:

  http://www.realthailand.ca/

Colin McGregor
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