[wellylug] Last nights meeting

[Phil_Hayward]

Hi Tony,
Being a first time attendee of the WellyLUG also, I agree with a most of
your comments. A good collective wealth of knowledge there though and I look
forward to sharing in it and even perhaps contributing one day when I come
up to speed.

As for taking an interest in your project....not sure that I did much.
However Lindsay and and I are currently trying to put together a mail server
as well and would be quite happy sharing/pooling any knowledge we might
gain.....kind of like the blind leading the blind perhaps...:-)
I am genuinely interested in your project as I think it is for a good cause
and am willing to assist in anyway I can.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills" <ajwills at paradise.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Last nights meeting


>
> 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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