[Gllug] Future GLLUG meetings

[Hari Sekhon]

Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    There has been some discussion about how many meetings should be planned,
> and what kind of meetings are likely to be well attended. Organising a
> meeting does take some time and effort. There have been some obvious gaps in
> the past, and actual attendance has been variable. Many people who subscribe
> to the distribution lists are remote from London, and are unlikely to be
> able to attend.
>    Choices include talks and practical sessions, whether both
> should be arranged for the same meeting, possibly preventing attendance at
> both, and whether evening or weekend meetings are preferred (sometimes
> speakers are only in the area and able to give a talk for a limited period,
> so options are limited).
>    Documentation was less easy to find in the early days of GLLUG. Do we
> still need a mix of talks aimed at both advanced specialist subjects and
> general talks for new users? Do we have a high proportion of new users, and
> is this likely to increase?
>   
Professional's view:

As a linux sysadmin, I vote for the advanced stuff, especially 
high-availability clustering, high performance computing. 
parallel/clustered/distributed filesystems etc.
This stuff is interesting and there general knowledge on it yet.
If you want to learn how to click yes/no in Ubuntu, surely there are as 
many tutorials on the web on that as there Ubuntu noobies?

As for weekend vs evening: if you work in Central London but live in the 
suburbs (as is common among I believe) then it's easier to get to the 
Central London meeting locations in the evenings if you are already 
uptown for work, rather than having the full long journey at the weekends?

-h

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