Re: Tonight's meeting (Metro)

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Brune, Charlie wrote:

> BUT, I do volunteer to make a presentation on Kylix ("Delphi for Linux") at an
> upcoming meeting.  Kylix is a GUI-based development environment for X-Windows.
> It's kind of like Visual Basic (VB).
> 
Awesome! You're slated for February then (as January's meeting is 
cancelled due to holiday conflict)

> A few thoughts about the meeting place:
> -- Does the library have *any* sort of projector?
>
They have an overhead that we can use. Maybe the new digital one upstairs 
is something we can use, but until then, we are using Jim Burke's.

> -- We do need an agenda each time.  People need to know what's going to be
> discussed.
>
Yes we do. When one is available, we post it with the meeting 
announcements. I won't comment on my husband's timeliness of that though 
:P Honestly, though, this was supposed to be handled by other 
individual(s), and when it didn't happen we tried to throw one together. 
That aside, with planned meetings, we should be able to do a meeting 
announcement with a last minute reminder (for those of us living day by 
day) a day or two before the meeting.

> -- Each meeting needs a facilitator.  Someone to make sure we cover the agenda.
>
But do we have any volunteers for this? Any volunteers actually good at 
this? I'd like to play with the idea of instead of having this sort of 
"ring leader" to take turns with the meeting responsibility. For instance, 
you will take on February. Whoever volunteers for March will be 
responsible for March, etc. For failover, if February's volunteer falls 
through, March should be ready (or have some other sort of understudy). 
This gives us advance notification of the meeting topic to prepare an 
agenda. It also gives the presenter enough time to gather the additional 
materials, swag, etc (either themselves, or telling me what they need)

> ====================================================
> Here's a sample of what I'm thinking about:
> 
>       AGENDA
> 
> -- Introductions
> -- What's new with Linux?
> -- Presentation(s):
>    >>> Kylix ("Delphi for Linux") by Charlie Brune
> -- Beginner's Corner
>    >>> [Insert at least one EACH month for the newbie, like "what file systems
> do I need?"]
> -- Decide on presentations for next month's meeting
> -- Questions and Answers
>    >>> Questions left over from last month's meeting (stuff that had to be
> researched)
>    >>> New questions  (Don't be shy!  No question is too basic!)
> -- Adjourn (let the BS session/pizza/beer/whatever begin!!!)
> 
This is similar to the layout I tried to get LUCI to use shortly before 
(or after?) our move. However, beginner's corner turned into Newbie Night. 
However the "what's new" and "news" was (is?) something we always tried to 
cover too in the beginning. That type of thing is good for the last minute 
floaters to come in prior to the main presentation.

I'd like to insert some sort of break though. It does help prevent severe 
side tracked conversations, and allows people to stretch. We are allowed 
food & beverage in the room, as long as we clean up our mess, if we want 
to start a "munchie fund" or take turns bringing something in.

> Thanks for reading this far.  8-)
> 
:-) I'm very glad to hear from you :-) I wish you were coming tonight, as 
I'd like to take these discussions a little further with some documented 
plans. But, I (or whoever volunteers) will post whatever is discussed on 
the list for other members unable to attend.


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