[Lincoln LUG] meeting format and my hellos

[Philip Newborough]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:20 AM, tom bruton <tombruton87 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Was great to meet all of you the other night. Sorry I didn't get to speak to
> every1 got into a deep conversation with Alister and a tenacious debate
> about security with Becky's other half. Its good to speak to like minded
> people.
>

Tenacious?! Yep, sorry about that, I sometimes like to play the
devil's advocate. I can assure you that it is safe to ignore almost
everything that I say :)

> I spoke to Becky about how the Leeds groups worked and building on the
> Lincoln community. However I don't want to step on anybodies toes, so it was
> suggested I emailed some ideas in the mailing list and see what people
> think.
>
> In Leeds the place I have spent the last few years of my life there is quite
> a few groups similar to LUG e.g. OWASP and Ruby Thing. Out of all the groups
> OWASP is by far the most popular with professionals students and hobbyists
> alike. I think this is mainly down to there format, which is 2 talks running
> from 40mins to and hour then off to the pub.
>
> I think a similar format could work for LLUG, having a single 40min hour
> presentation then a general social aspect. I think it would give the meeting
> a focal point and also attract others into the group as it will give
> immediate value to coming. I would be more than happy to do the occasional
> presentation a few topics i wouldn't mind doing are
>
> Home Networking gone wild (really just going though really cool home
> networking stuff you can do such as media servers with front ends on tvs,
> network logins across all OS's, home instant messaging service,
> virtualisation servers, intranet. Oh and how to do it for cheap)
> Why linux sucks
> Why linux is awesome and you should ignore everything I said in my why linux
> sucks presentation
> Hacking IP cameras
>
> I have taken inspiration for the presentation ideas from other presentations
> but they would all be original presentations.
>
> The other thing that a couple of people mentioned is a desire to learn
> html/css. This is something in which the basic concepts can be taught in a
> day and people can walk away with something pretty cool that they have made.
> Again I would not mind getting involved in running a day course.
>
> So guys/girls let me know what you think to my ideas, tell me if I'm way off
> the mark to what people want from the group if that is the case. I would
> just really love to see a large and active Linux community in the Lincoln
> area.
>

Sounds brilliant and I think there is definitely room for this. I
would be happy to listen to anyone that wants to give a
talk/presentation. As you mentioned, if the talks are 30 - 60 minutes
in length, then that would provide plenty of time after for
dissection, chitchat and socialising :)

Have you given much thought as to how this should be organised?

Cheers,
 -- Philip