[wellylug] Notes from Meeting (long but good)

[Chris Hodgetts]

What do you want to do?

Much like , Where do you want to goto today? But much more better,
because you can choose your own path

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:34, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> Happy to continue to help in whatever capacity the 'group' thinks I can be
> of assistance.
> 
> Colin Klenner
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Tony Wills
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:24 PM
> To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Notes from Meeting (long but good)
> 
> 
> 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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