[wellylug] Very Important: Meeting of 13th Feb 2005

[Jethro carr]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:19 +1300, David Murray wrote:

> I'd like to see a small (15 minutes absolute max) learning segment near 
> the beginning of each month's meeting where people can share/present some 
> tip, or trick, or some cool feature that they've only just discovered, or 
> stuff like that. Something short, straight forward and useful. And if 
> people want to find out more about what was presented, then they can 
> approach the person who presented the segment.
> 
> I think that informal discussion in small groups is fine and good. I think 
> that having a less informal part of the meeting where everyone is 
> participating in something together... and learning together as a LUG... 
> is also good.
> 
> Why not have the best of both ideas?
> 
> Personally, I'd love to see a brief presentation, for example, on some of 
> the things to avoid when trying to configure X.
> 
> I'd like to see, for example, somebody explain briefly how runlevels work, 
> and what the difference is between runlevels on Linux and runlevels on BSD 
> unix.
> 
> Wouldn't these things be stuff that all of us would find interesting at 
> least to some degree? Would a general discussion on these things be 
> interesting to anybody?
> 
> Who among us would enjoy the challenge of doing these sorts of 
> presentations?
> 
> Is there anybody here who has recently discovered some advanced feature 
> of, say, Open Office, or The Gimp, or KDE, or whatever, and felt really 
> pleased with what they could do as a result?
> 
> Anybody want to share those triumphs with the rest of us?
> 
> Personally, I think that a part of learning is also teaching what one's 
> learned.
> 
> Would people really find this sort of thing so much of a bore that they 
> would not come along to WellyLUG? Really??
> 
> And who would be the co-ordinator of this?
> 
> Who would be the person who has the authority to speak on behalf of 
> WellyLUG?
> 
> Whose letterbox/email address is the one for communications to WellyLUG?
> 
> I see much potential for WellyLUG as a centre of shared learning about all 
> things Linux and Open Source, and I would be happy to help WellyLUG as a 
> group to achieve its stated aims.
> 
> The questions I see ahead of us are:
> 
> How best to achieve WellyLUG's stated aims (see above), given the greater 
> public interest currently being shown towards Linux.
> 
> And, how best to promote WellyLUG to the public at large (many of whom 
> have now at least heard the name "Linux") as a place where they can come 
> along and find out more about using Linux.
> 

this is what I want to do. If I do become the meetings administrator, I
want to organise more presentations, talks and tutorials.

Some of the ones I would like to see run (not for my benefit, but
because they are useful things that people wish to know):
- setting up samba shares
- how to configure X
- how does your linux system boot
- setting up a basic webserver
- etc.

And if we run more of these, I want to promote it at local groups and
places, to get more new people interested in the group.





-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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