[SLUG] New Meeting Schedule

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:31, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> Hi All, Sorry for the lengthy email. Get a cuppa and put your feet up
> before you start :)
> 
> First of all, Tuesdays continue to be a bad day for people to meet up. I
> am thinking of moving the monthly meeting day to a Wednesday or
> Thursday. These days are the days that the landlord of the Cricketers
> says he has free most of the time. Please let me know of your
> preference. This should help alleviate some of the hassle tying the date
> down near to the time.

Both days are good for me (as long as I'm not on shift), so either :)

> 
> Also, since Gavin volunteered to do a talk on firewalling principles
> (yes you did!), I thought we might put together a schedule of talks.
> Volunteer to do a talk on a subject of your choice. Chances are we can
> occupy a few months talk slots already, so im thinking you would have
> miles of time to prepare something. It doesn't have to be something
> major (thought it can be!), just something you think a wider audience
> might be interested in.

Gulp!

> I would like to have a writeup of the talks, so we can put something
> useful on the website for others, or those that were not able to make it
> to the meeting. Im thinking that we could put one of the volunteered
> machines to use as a presentation machine if its needed.
> 
> If you don't fancy presenting, suggest a topic and someone else may
> volunteer.
> 
> Once we have a couple of dates confirmed. I will contact the local rag
> and ask if they will give us a bit of publicity. Fingers crossed we
> should have something interesting to do at meets, and get a few more
> people though the door.

Should do. There are plenty of people I know of that are just starting
out with Linux. They have n't joined the SLUG yet (although at least one
has ;) Something like this might get them to pop along.

 
> Gavin, did you say that you could spread yours out into a few smaller
> sections? IE, over a couple of meets?
> 
> To get the ball rolling, I will volunteer to do a talk on the Linux
> Email System (for dialup users) showing how to make use of inbuilt
> utilities such as SMTP servers and Mail Delivery Agents.

Good on yah! putting your money where your mouth is...respect! :)


Chris 

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