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

[David Murray]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:43 +1300, Jethro carr wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:19 +1300, David Murray wrote:
<snip>

> > 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.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

In my experience, I learn much better if someone is actually saying and
pointing out, rather than reading it out of a book or a man page.

This is one of the reasons why I also go along to the PerlMongers before
WellyLUG.


Regards

David Murray