[wellylug] Notes from Meeting (long but good)

[Colin & Josephine Lewis]

Sounds like it was a fantastic meeting.  Being an attender of the Hutt 
sub-group of WLUG, I presume there will be the need to duplicate these 
various roles for us as well.  The overall organising team will oversee the 
whole LUG however I presume?

It's just there wasn't any mention of how this works given we have two groups 
under the WLUG umbrella.

I've certainly found everybody supportive and helpful during beginning 
journeying with Linux, so I look forward to it becoming even better into the 
future.

cheers

Colin Lewis

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 9:55 pm, lug wrote:
> Hey,
>
> First of all, I think we should all recognise how awesome it was of
> Colin Klenner (and others) to start the thread on Organising the
> WellyLug, and provoking some healthly debate on how to move forward.
> Cheers Colin. Hopefully we do some cool things and everyone has fun and
> learns something.
>
> Basically the Wellylug needs some people to help with some important
> things. We have people that do stuff, and stuff that needs doing. The
> stuff and the people may change as appropriate. The important thing is
> the tasks at hand - not the people or positions they hold. Having said
> that, there are some tasks tied to some people.
>
>
> These are:
>
> Venue Guy:
> Make sure that the venue is good for the wellylug. Make sure that
> wellylug is good to the venue. Venue Guy embarrasses and shames people
> who are messy etc at the venue. Venue Guy (in association with Welcome
> Guy)also does the run down on who is presenting what on the night of
> meetings - basically handles the mechanics of the meeting itself.
> Nothing too serious.
>
> The venue is currently at Lan Place for as long as Shane Cole is
> generous.[EVERYONE remember to always say NICE things about Shane and
> Lan Place - they rock. Seriously.].
>
> Welcome Guy:
> Welcome Guy looks after people who are new to the LUG, and are trying to
> work out how things are run around here - Questions *about* the LUG. The
> LUG itself helps with questions about *Linux* etc.
>
> Presentation Guy:
> People talk to presentation guy if they want to do a talk on whatever it
> is that turns their dial.
>
> Installfest Guys:
> InstallFest is a great way to introduce new people to Linux. New people
> to Linux is good. InstallFest needs 3 Installfest Guys (with the help of
> everyone) to sort out InstallFests. InstallFests are hard work that
> needs lots of help. But installfests bring new people to the lug which
> is good.
>
> Web Guy: Web Guy makes sure that we're online.
>
> Pen Guy: Someone needs to write these silly notes. And make stupid
> jokes.
>
> Everyone: If you feel passionate about something, and you want it to
> happen - then do it. Us guys (the organising team) will help you if you
> have questions, but remember - you want it - you drive it - and we'll
> support you where we can. If someone thinks that having nametags is
> important (for example) then they become NameTag guy (not someone else),
> and they sort it out.
> Basically the idea is to be self starting. There's no point complaining
> about why something isn't being done, when you can make it happen
> yourself.
>
>
> OK. There are also immediate tasks we've come up with:
>
> Skills database: Part of the reason that some people are shy to do
> presentations is because they think that a) They are not as leet as the
> next guy,  and b) people might laugh at them. This is not true - We want
> the lug to basically be as friendly a place as possible, think of it not
> like a presentation, but a chat with your mates about stuff.
>
> Any way Sam Cannell has volunteered to create some php magic
> (co-ordinating with Jethro) so people can enter what things they're good
> at on the wellylug website. This way we all know who's good at what and
> what people might be interested in hearing about.
>
> Presentations (for a start): Sam Sargeant (with Ed Hintz): My big PVR.
> Sam Cannell: PHP Magic spells and party tricks. Sam Sargeant: PGP why
> and how + keysigning, Jamie Baddeley: VoIP. Michael Dittmer: There's BSD
> in that there Mac!
>
> Feel_the_stream!: Jeremy Naylor is going to help the WellyLug put some
> selected presentations (i.e those that are OK with being a net
> celebrity) online. Jeremy is involved with a seriously cool outfit known
> as R2 - who did the Lord of the Rings Premiere online stuff. See here
> for more details: http://www.r2.co.nz/ . Pen Guy and Presentation Guy
> will help Jeremy.
>
> thursday_night_curry: Jamie Baddeley has volunteered to organise a night
> of indian curry madness. Basically we're going to take over a restaurant
> and have fun! Stay tuned for more details.
>
> Nametag Guy: Peter_dawson at eagle.co.nz has kindly offered to sort out
> nametags. ***EVERYONE*** on the list, please email peter with the
> subject of [nametags], with your preferred name in the message. For
> those of you who don't do this, we will point and laugh at you at the
> next meeting.
> Nice Guy will make sure that we don't point and laugh and genuine new
> people (somehow) :-) - Thanks Peter for the offer.
>
> list: Brent to organise Ewen to create a mailing list for us guys (the
> organising team). All wellylug list members can view the archive of the
> mailing list for us guys. (hey it's better than doing cc's etc)
>
> [**anyone** please add anything you want here] Don't post to us guys,
> post it to the list. If you want it - you make it happen (t-shirts?)
>
> Currently the people doing stuff for Wellylug are:
> Sam Cannell (Presentation Guy)
> Tony Wills (Nice Guy)
> Michael Dittmer (Install Guy)
> Brent Wood (Install Guy)
> Jamie Dobbs (Venue Guy)
> Chris Hodgetts(Install Guy)
> Jamie Baddeley.(Pen Guy)
> Jethro Carr (web guy)
>
>
> This approach to helping the wellylug is reviewed in August 2004.