[wellylug] Last nights meeting
Glen Ogilvie
ogilvie at world-net.co.nz
Tue Feb 12 23:16:18 NZDT 2002
Hi Tony, the guy with that nice P66 Unisys ;-)
I think that last Monday's meeting didn't follow the usual idea.. however,
that maybe because Jamie, who usually offers some direction, was not
present.. (hope you get well soon Jamie)
I am going to check at work tomorrow to see if I am able to borrow a
projector to help with the huddle around screen problem, so next meeting
might be better. Also, if I have time to get one perpared, I might be able
to do a bit of a persentation on the linux file system and permissions.
As for names.. I was the guy wearing a white t-shirt with linux penguin on
it.
Cheers
Glen Ogilvie
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:04, you wrote:
> 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.
>
> ...
>
>
>
> .-. Wellington
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