[Gllug] GLLUG Attendance and mobs of three people.

[Dean Wilson]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:54:34PM +0000, Mark Williams wrote:
> The announcements of the most recent meetings have announced zero or
> one named talks and a promise of `further details to follow'.  The
> further details have not been forthcoming, either before the meeting
> or after (the latter could at least encourage people to resolve not to
> miss the next one).

Thats a very good point. I'll see if I can rustle up someone to write a
short piece on what happens and put it online. I'm also going to try
and get copies of any slides used so we can put links up on the site.

> One idea that's been proposed in the past (by Zach?) but not really
> come to anything (AFICT) was to maintain a list of ideas for talks on
> the Wiki.

We have a GLLUG wiki that's kindly provided by Richard Cohen
(http://wiki.gllug.org.uk/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrontPage) but the problem
with Wikis is they get eaten a lot, the AndrewBlack page is an obvious
example. (http://wiki.gllug.org.uk/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/AndrewBlack)

I'm having a look at www.tadalist.com as an option (with RSS!) but it
doesn't do versioning of lists so it's not ideal. Hopefully your
comments will kick off some discussion on the gllugadmin list.

> I suspect that many of us could give talks if it occurred to us that
> there were topics in which other people were interested (I always tend
> to think that the subjects I know about are either so obvious that
> everyone will already know or so esoteric that no-one else would want
> to know about).

I'm hoping thats a common problem!

I want to try and get some more advanced talks in. I don't want to
discourage new, less experienced people from turning up but since we
stopped having the deep guts technical talks (Mark, Tigrian and Simon
from Veritas for example) we've lost access to a valuable part of the
community that kept other advanced and intermediate people interested.
In losing those others we lost a lot of potentially expert speakers.

This might not be a popular idea but I'm quite up for an 'oldies day'
where you're assumed to have a pretty good idea of what you're doing and
letting the speakers cover some meaty technical topics without having to
cover all the background. All we need are the speakers; hint hint :)

  Dean
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