On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, nick thompson wrote:
> Wayne, I ask you to reconsider, and I think everybody will be able to
> come out of this happy. (and besides, if Jima get's that package in
> fedora extra for you, it'll be that much easier :] )

  From what I was told by the reporter, the main issue ATM is some problem 
with tre (a BuildReq for crm114) crashing under x86_64.  As I don't have 
any x86_64 machines, I'm going to be limited help there, but I'm stepping 
up to clear crm114 as quickly as I can once that's resolved.  (Because 
after all, more useful software being available to the average user is 
generally a good thing.)

> Anyway, I don't know I just had to write something on this thread as I
> have absolutely great memories of the first tclug meeting (at the mall
> of america, no less...) where ben kochie, a few others and I scrawled
> email addresses on napkins in the food court. This must have been early
> 98 or so maybe late 97, who cares anyway the point is... that day I had
> NO IDEA how great tclug would become. I mean, Bob & team seem to do an
> incredible job making the list do it's thing. And I find it's always
> great to have a linux list that's local, for fun stuff that appeals to
> all of us, some in different ways, beer meetings, hardware exchange,
> hardware sale, hardware recommendations, and of course the non stop
> linux questions... let's make this list the best it can be.

  According to the research I did while looking for a definitive founding 
date for the Linux Counter's LUG listing 
(http://lugww.counter.li.org/groups.cms?&cc=US&rc=MN), the date of that 
first meeting was 1998-02-07.  I'm not off-hand finding my source on that, 
but I do recall seeing an email that cited that specific date (else I 
would have been more vague).  I wasn't there, but I'm a bit of a 
historian.

      Jima