[wellylug] Last nights meeting

[Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills]

As a newbie to wellylug meetings I was a bit disappointed that the nice
description of meetings (a short presentation about a topic, followed by a
more generalised time ...) didn't materialise ....

But before someone flames me! I'm not complaining ;-)
Having attended a few computer group meetings over the last 20 years (the
male/female ratio at these gatherings hasn't changed much), and having
organised a computer users group for about 5 of them I think the wellylug
meeting rates just fine.  And its nice to have a group without some
officious committee and without membership fees for no apparent benefit :-)

I felt it was difficult getting involved with the group interconnecting the
PCs with coyote etc (which I think was meant to be the 'about a topic' bit
of the meeting), you can really only get a couple of people around each PC
for a start and us newbies weren't really invited in ....

But then us newbies didn't know who was the usual core of the meeting and
who had never been before (I was thanked by someone for helping organise
the meeting :).  Someone suggested name tags, which would help ... perhaps
what's needed when a lot of new faces turn up is some sort of ice-breaking
intro session (I can just visualise us newbies standing up and saying "I'm
Fred and I'm a computer addict, but have gone xxx days/months/years without
touching a Micro$oft machine.  Now I have found my saviour, Linux ..." )

Anyway I'm terrible at remembering names (unless they're of computers), but
in case anyone's interested I was the hairy one (at one time a beard was
almost a uniform for real computer nerds) with the Unisys P66 server
doorstop (make me an offer :-).

And thanks Phil for taking an interest in my project .... [hope you didn't
note my lack of progress since asking questions here back in Novemeber :-[

--- Tony

At 21:14 05-02-02 +1300, Daniel Reurich <dreurich at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>We had about 15 people turn up with 6 or 7 machines running as well as one
>of those pentiun 66 server boxes to look at.  About half of the group were
>new to the wellylug with 2 from the Kapiti Coast.  Some of the guys with
>computers got together and had a play with Coyote while others did installs
>of Linux and I tried unsuccesssfully to help one of the newbies get adabas
>working with Staroffice. I managed to get everyone out by 10:30.  All in
>all a good gathering.
...


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