[wellylug] Notes from Meeting (off-topic)

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Fri Feb 13 09:12:22 NZDT 2004


Hi ______

Please forgive my abrupt question, but who exactly are you? I cannot see
anything in your email that actually identifies you as a person.

My apologies (and condolences) if your name really is "Lug".

Cheers,
David.


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> Message: 3
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Notes from Meeting (long but good)
> From: lug <wellylug at vpc.co.nz>
> To: "wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz" <wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz>
> Date: 12 Feb 2004 19:19:59 +1300
> Reply-To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>
> I can help with that if you want Tony.
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:23, Tony Wills wrote:
> > At 04:00 12/02/04 +0100, you wrote:
> > >On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:02:51PM +1300, lug wrote:
> > > > bugger.
> > > > sed 's/nice guy/welcome guy/g' previous_email.
> > >
> > >oh and there i thought "nice guy" was another one of those club positions.
> > >
> > >greetings, martin. (can i be the nice guy, please? ;-)))
> >
> > Well actually that was Jamie's name for the role in the draft meeting
> > notes, I suggested that it was very kind of him, but another title might
> > sound a bit better ;-)
> >
> > Now that you mention it, I would like to point out that I'm not a very good
> > candidate for welcoming people into the group, but as I suggested we needed
> > someone to make new members feel welcome at meetings I was landed with the
> > job.  I'm not really a 'people' person and have a terrible time remembering
> > peoples names and even if I remember their face I probably won't remember
> > who they are.
> >
> > But I don't mind trying to get something moving in this area, so here goes:
> >
> > The Problem:
> > ==========
> > There are two categories of new members, those new to linux (or wanting to
> > know about linux) and those just new to this group.
> >
> > Both categories of new members who attend meetings often find there are
> > groups of people doing their own thing, talking or working on some machine
> > etc, and it's hard to get involved.  They may wander around looking over
> > peoples shoulders but may not feel brave enough to barge in, they may not
> > bother coming back either ...
> >
> > The group that are new to Linux also need help to bring them up to speed so
> > they feel able to participate, it's hard to ask those 'dumb' questions in
> > front of a group who you assume are all experts and expect are all far
> > ahead of you.
> >
> > Action Plan:
> > =========
> > Firstly I would like to hear from 'new' members and ask them what they
> > would like to see, what they are looking for when joining this group.
> >
> > Then I'd like some volunteers to help implement whatever help we can give
> > to these new members.
> > (I envisage we need someone to actually physically acknowledge new members
> > [maybe this can be the person in charge of name tags as well], it would
> > help if this person could remember names! ).
> >
> > Feedback please! (either here or email me direct).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tony W.




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