[Cadre-politics] status: Fransico franco still dead

[Dan MacNeil]

MATT NOW WITH A JOB
BOARD
JOSH BONNETT SOUNDING
FRANCO STILL DEAD
MONEY
PROTEST
FUTURE FAILURE FORMAT

MATT NOW WITH A JOB

Matt Ouellette hooked up with the IVPR [9] posse.  He can have as many 
or few hours as he wants. This is good for us because it let him take on 
a little contract from us to re-package his server monitoring stuff for 
the next release of Debian.

	[9] http://ivpr.cs.uml.edu/gallery/

We still see him almost every day at the Gym. Last friday at coffee, he 
said his first day was fun enough. He is comfortable breaking other 
people's software.

BOARD

We had the quarterly board meeting. It was good, though not what I
wanted. As the song [1] (approximately) goes, sometimes you just get
what you need. At this meeting the board gave us a bit more than what
they signed on for. [2] For more info, see the board list archives [3].
For a large donation [4] or a few beers @ the next reunion I'd be happy
to supply details of what (probably) went on in the closed executive
session.

[1]
http://lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/you+cant+always+get+what+you+want_20117887.html
[2] http://thecsl.org/go/board/
[3] http://lists.thecsl.org/pipermail/divinerightofkings/
[4] http://thecsl.org/go/donatione

JOSH BONNETT SOUNDING

Josh Bonnett (aka nodus) surfaced over the weekend. He IM'd me. For
future reference seekers/reference: repeatedly calling me stuff that
rhymes with "truck"-head is absolutely fine if you get shit done. I
don't care, call me bad names AND get shit done, I'll be happy to give
you a good reference. (really)

FRANCO STILL DEAD
SPAM filtering is still working (thanks John) and that evil bastard
Franco is still dead. Saturday night live told a few jokes, but for the
real scoop see Eric Blair's word on the Spanish Civil War. [5]

	[5] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156421178

Kamala's still working on the downtime database, which is teaching her
database web programing and will help us figure out how to prevent
downtime.

MONEY
We have some [6], our low point for fiscal year 2006/07 is likely to be
three hundred and some dollars see:

	/http://thecsl.org/sys/finance.d/csl_2006-2007_budget_v3.xls

We want more. Expect these pages in the future to include a sneaky
little pitch for donating more.

	[7] http://thecsl.org/go/donate/

PROTEST
This week http://cbacre.org marched up to a closed Catholic Church in
the acre. CBA wants the arch-diocese to sell the building to CBA to
use for low income housing instead building luxury condos. s 
anti-Catholic protests go, this was pretty good. The worst of it was 
somebody starting their remarks:

	"As a recovering Catholic..."

The whole thing seemed reasonable enough to me and I am pretty much a
yes-man as far as the Pope and the bishops go.

We (the CBA interns anyway) left a big banner in Spanish stapled to the
door. My guess is that it'll be there for a while. They used a lot of
staples.

The 11 year olds were focused on balancing on the rails in front of the
church while holding a banner for the geeky guy taking pictures. The
megaphone was something of a hot potato. (I got out of it by looking
scared and inarticulate).

I think the little old widow ladies in black did the best with the 
megaphone, but it is hard to say for sure because I didn't understand 
their (or anyone's) Spanish at all.

As an aside, the former paster of the church is now working @ Saint
Patrick's down the street and (last I heard) on the CBA board. Politics
are complicated I guess.

FUTURE / FAILURE / NEW FORMAT

At the board meeting, there were a few people asking stuff like
approximately:

	"so again, what did the 5 of you do all summer?"

...which maybe was a clue that these reports are a little light on the
technical detail.

But on the other hand donors seem more interested in vicariously
reliving CSL Friday afternoon coffee hour than technical detail.
I've yet to have anyone on this list email and say:

	"Please explain why John used the
	 SA package from backports.org
	 and not from debian volatile."

But on the gripping hand, we are about technology and convincing people 
to use it.

	[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripping_hand

I guess by way of experiment, next week I'll write about technology 
failure and getting fired and the following week, I'll talk about John's 
work with either Samba or server side filter rules.