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From: thad@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: September 1988 BADGE Meeting
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Date: 20 Sep 88 04:52:16 GMT
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Thanks to the efforts of several cretins posting garbage from PORTAL
(e.g. J-J ("Help me PUH-L-E-E-E-Z-E"), Rob Noha (aka J-J), and Nanook of
the South ("Send a dead kid a postcard")), uucp and Usenet traffic in and
out of PORTAL appears to be being "filtered" at several sites, resulting in
a LOT of bounced e-mail and other oddities and weirdness.

I've replied to all BADGE- and Amiga-related mail sent me; if it "bounces"
there's nothing I can do 'cept refer the matter to PORTAL's SysAdmin.  Sorry.

In any event ....

The September 15 BADGE meeting WAS videotaped.  This was the meeting featuring
Jay Miner.  Recording was done under the auspices of Winner's Circle Computer
Systems (Berkeley, CA) and as soon as I receive information from them I'll
post information for those who may wish to get a copy of the tape for their
developers' and users' group.

BADGE is a very loosely structured (if at all! :-) organization permitted
to hold meetings at Stanford University because a numbers of its "members"
are affiliated with Stanford in one way or another; all the other "members"
are "freeloaders" (to use one person's definition) in that their interests
lie with the Amiga and not with Stanford.  Such is life!  :-)

BADGE has no dues and no newsletter.  If one attends a meeting, one is a
"member."  Informal attempts will be made to see that meetings ARE
videotaped, but this is a voluntary effort by those who happen to have the
equipment and are present at a meeting.

By popular acclaim (he was "volunteered" by the members!), Leo Schwab is
the present chairperson.  That is, he is the first one to speak at each
meeting and to introduce the other guests.

Tom Rokicki is the Stanford "sponsor"; he arranges for the room to be
available for the BADGE meetings.

Randy Spencer is the coordinator for the BADGE Killer Demo Contests.

Dave Comstock, Gary Starkweather, and I comprise the Speakers' Committee; we
beg, plead, entice and cajole people to discuss their current projects and
other interesting goings-on about the Amiga.

A sizeable percentage of active developers whose products ARE on the dealers'
shelves comprise the "membership", along with other interested parties.

If YOU would like to speak at BADGE, please send me e-mail.  Gary isn't on
Usenet, and Dave Comstock is changing uucp addresses.

Marco Papa (from Felsina Software) has expressed an interest to present
his project(s) at any of the Dec 88 or Jan 89 meetings.

Speak at BADGE (or be square :-)



Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]