[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Tonight's meeting (Metro)
Kara (and everyone else!),
Thanks for your comments.
I'll be the facilitator for the February meeting. I'll send out a draft of the
Agenda in mid-January. Kara makes good points below and I'll include them in
the draft.
For what it's worth, I think it's important to let any potential newcomers to
our meetings know that there will be time set aside in the meeting
*specifically* for newbie-type questions. I will have some myself!!!! Newbies
must be our favorite people; they'll help us grow Linux.
I'll ask for volunteers -- it'll be on the agenda -- to show us all a command
that they might like ... and maybe just never knew about. Don't be shy... you
can amaze new Linux folks (and me) with the simplest stuff. (Mine for February
will be "vlock -a". I just LOVE that command!). 8-)
With an agenda, a schedule of presenters, time set aside for beginners so that
they'll feel welcome, and unstructured time at the end, we'll be fine. Really.
Regards,
Charlie
<mushy>
P.S. I don't say it enough, but without this group, I wouldn't be where I am
Linux-wise. Your answering of my basic questions, help in getting new RH
software, and inside knowledge cannot be understated. So... THANKS!
</mushy>
-----Original Message-----
From: Kara Pritchard [mailto:kara@luci.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:14 PM
To: 'silug-discuss@silug.org'
Subject: Re: Tonight's meeting (Metro)
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.
--
Kara Pritchard Phone: 618-398-7360
Director of Exam Development http://www.lpi.org/
--
To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with
"unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.
To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with
"unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.