[Gllug] Future GLLUG meetings

[lesleyb at herlug.org.uk]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:56:40PM +0000, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> 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?
> 

I would be interested in such talks.  I have never had exposure to these
kind of setups and it would be interesting to find out more about them.

I would have to travel into London whenever the event was on - whether
it is an evening or weekend event is of no signficance to me at the
moment.

However another poster has already said more could be dealt with at the
weekends than in an evening session.  Perhaps a series of evening
sessions on one theme would help counter that.  However, if there is
setup and tear down time to take into account then sometimes there is
more time at the weekend than in the evening.  When I was working it
could be difficult to get away during the week even in the evenings.

What about OpenSource applications - perhaps a series on stuff like the 
GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and other desktop apps ?  Depends if we are
interested in them from a user or developer point of view I guess but it
might be good to see what people can achieve.  I'm almost tempted to
suggest an art competition using Open Source Software.  This isn't
entirely Linux based these days so we might feel it is inappropriate for
a Linux User Group to run such a thing.

Regards

Lesley


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