All valid points and ones that have been discussed before. One thing the collective KLUG community is good at doing it discussing what to do but then never following through with it.<div>It would be good for that to change.</div>
<div><br><div>Out of interest was this idea created off list or at todays meeting?</div><div><br></div><div>Colin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 February 2011 17:37, Luc Tidy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luc.tidy@gmail.com">luc.tidy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">KLUG meetings are constantly evolving,
and this process should be encouraged and up for discussion.
In a rather ad-hoc meeting we decided to approach a few
issues - primarly<span> </span></span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Meeting Content</b></span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><span> </span>&<span> </span></span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Organisation</b></span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">. </span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">We would appreciate your feedback and
hope to plan meetings on a quarterly basis to discuss
progress.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Formal talks from members or guest
speakers</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- "Show and Tell" section for people
to present things they are working on, new software people
might not have seen, web services etc. This could be
mandatory and as a way of introduction to the group.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Q&A / Problem Solving Sessions /
Development Discussions. This could encourage break-out
groups post talks. </span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Discussions / debates</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- KLUG Projects/Workshops?</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> - Certain caveats/code of conduct
require consideration?</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Lightning talks (though this may
cross over with show and tell)</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Themed events, e.g. Security, Web
apps, Kernel internals, Interoperability</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Drinks and Snacks</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Social Meetings</b></span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">To augment the "formal" quarterly
meetings, around Kent, for social events like pub/curry etc.
Held on a Friday night, or similiar. Previous attendance has
dried up so requires opening up for discussion.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- Virtual, supplementary meetings at
scheduled times</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> - Includes people in hard to reach
areas, or with an inability to travel</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> - Promotes use of IRC channel</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> - Investigate possible
voice/screen sharing options</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> - Mumble/TS, Skype, VNC,
GoToMeeting, YuuGuu etc.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Organisation</b></span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><i>-<span> </span></i></span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">If meetings are going to start later
in the day, it has been suggested to increase their length
so they take up the whole day, rather than being a 3 hour
stint that makes full use of the day impossible.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> 1100 - 1700</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"> 1200 - 1800</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- We currently have locations all over
the place. Are there any central places that are
particularly easy to get to by everyone using pubic
transport?</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">- A shared Google Calendar as a way of
seeing when the nexts meetings are.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">These points are a brief start of
potential changes that KLUG could see in the future. The
plan is to, from this basic discussion, extend into a
formal, planned meeting at some point.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>tl;dr:</b> What do you think of
these? What would you like to see from KLUG?</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">~A collaborative effort of:</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Luc, Spode, Julia, Boudiccas</span></div>
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