[wellylug] HuttLug Meeting

[Robin Hinde]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:14, Centurion Computer Technology Ltd wrote:
> Well, due to lack of Interest I will postpone the meeting until Tuesday
> the 30th when I can be there.
>
Hi Daniel,

Hope you had a nice evening last week, still on for the meeting tomorrow?

> I think we need to look seriously at whether the HuttLUG is really
> wanted as the attendance is small compared with the number of people who
> were keen to originally have it.

I've been involved in PC user group meetings for several years, in my 
experience it is *really* important to make a point of having a specific 
topic for discussion, presentation or a demonstration at every meeting (it 
doesn't have to be long or take up the entire meeting, and can be done by a 
LUG member or an external speaker) - and give adequate notice of what will be 
happening. People need to be convinced that it is worth giving up an evening 
to attend a meeting, most people won't do this on a regular basis unless they 
feel they will get something back. It can take a while to build up numbers.

Of course, people generally won't tell you what they want to see at meetings, 
as it may just be they want to see or learn about something they didn't even 
know existed.

If you haven't anything else in mind for tomorrow, I'd really like to see a 
K12LTSP demo. Any chance of that? I'd also like to learn a little about Linux 
and laptop hardware - pcmcia and suspend/resume etc, and can provide a laptop 
with Mandrake installed if there are likely to be any people attending who 
have experience in this area and can assist in setting this up.

Alternatively, does anybody else have any suggestions?

cheers