4/27    Thanks to all the alumni who showed up for the BBQ today despite the
        late notice.  We ended up having about 15 alumni and 15 students and
        just about the right amount of steak to make everybody happy.  It
        was also nice to chat with you all, despite most of the talk being
        about how screwed up the university policies/employment situation
        is. -mrauser
        \_ We talked about how current undergrads are not using MOTD and wall.
           Too retro. A Jabber server was floated to, uh, supplement wall, but
           what about MOTD? I think we want current undergrads to enjoy the
           online community we had, no matter what form it takes.  We also
           talked briefly about how hard it is to hire good people, so if we
           want to throw job/internship offers to CSUA, we need a reliable way
           to reach the membership, which does not seem to be in place any
           more. -tcmoore
           Too retro. A Jabber server was floated to, uh, "supplement" wall,
           but what about MOTD? I think we want current undergrads to enjoy the online
           community we had, no matter what form it takes.
           We also talked briefly about how hard it is to hire good people, so if
           we want to throw job/internship offers to CSUA, we need a reliable way
           to reach the membership, which does not seem to be in place any more. -tcmoore
           \_ thre is a jabber server?  where? how?
        \_ The meeting was a successful for me as an alumnus.  I got to meet
           some of my old buddies.  I'm not sure how successful it was for
           the CSUA since I saw (and experienced) very liitle interaction
           between the curent undergrads and the alumni. -jrleek
           \_ It did seem like mostly two camps, with only one or two
              undergrads (or quasi-undergrads) hanging out with the crotchety
              old alumni.  But that's to be expected; because there's no
              online connection between undergrads and alumni, there's no
              natural reason for the groups to interact when they get
              together in person.  We're strangers to each other.
              If the current students view this as a negative thing (and I
              think they should), they'll need to devise ways to get
              undergrads and alumni interacting online, as tcmoore mentions
              above.  -tom