[Bradford] Idea's for brief introductory talks for new / non technical users

[David Carpenter]

That seems good to me. 

It fits with my idea of helping to spread and promote Linux usage.

What do other people think?

David

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:03 +0100, Wayne Hanley wrote:
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> After several recent conversations with friends and colleges that run
> Linux but are not interested in the technicalities several things
> became evident that I thought might be worth sharing with the rest of
> you.
> 
> I know several people that are interested in attending our local LUG
> meetings but are worried that they are not of a significant level of
> technical ability to be able to join in discussions.  I think
> this is a miss representation of what the LUG is supposed to be. 
> In the descriptions I've come across the phrase "self help" is used
> which I think is dead on.  I don't think people should be worried
> about coming along because of fear that is they do as a question they
> will be ridiculed for asking / needing help.  That seems to be
> the first hurdle that I've come across in trying to get more people
> involved with us.
> 
> Second is what actually goes on at the meetings, and how they could
> get involved.  I was talking recently about version control in
> and how I use it for not only coding but also keeping revisions of
> other files, now he as never come across version control in a
> professional context let alone using it to keep revisions of personal
> information.  He suggested that it might be a good way to get
> more people interested if those of use that use things like that that
> other people might be interested in could do some small talks or
> demonstrations at the meetings to help people get started.  I
> quite liked the idea of it I'm sure as a group we already all have a
> fair few usability solutions that other people in the group and
> external to the group would find interesting / useful.  
> 
> A couple of idea's of what kind of thing the people I have been
> speaking to are interested in finding out more about with their Linux
> systems
> 
> *Version control
> *Backing up
> *Office replacement software
> *Syncing mobile devices
> *Cross platform compatibility (sharing thumb drives and such I think
> is what he as asking about)
> *Data organisation (Photos, Music, Search indexing of documents etc)
> 
> As anyone else had conversations like this?  How can we get in
> other people and make them feel included in the community and not have
> them feel like they don't have valid opinions and idea's to offer?
> 
> Cheers
> Wayne
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