[Nottingham] Re: NLUG talk to 28/04/2004?

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Martin Garton wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Duncan John Fyfe wrote:
>
> > Wow, free slot on 19 May any takers ?
>
> What would be interesting would be to discover what subjects people want
> to hear about in the talks.
>

We ask those who turn up what they want to hear.  Occasionally those discussions
spill onto the list.  The perl talks came about because people said they
wanted to know something usefull for web playfullness.

> I don't know whether I could give a useful talk because firstly I don't
> know whether everyone already knows more than myself on a given subject
> (they probably do), or secondly whether anyone is interested in hearing
> about it.
>

Have you asked 'would anyone be interested in a talk on foo' ?
Our audience tends to have a wide range of interests and abilities.

> James, what's the status of your super new website?  What does everyone
> think about a suggestions page and an associated poll for future talk
> subjects?
>

IMHO on-line polls suck.

We did conduct an excersise to gather suggestions from the list before the start
of the year and into January.  Hence the current ever morphing calendar.

A necessary pre-requisite to a suggestions page is for more people to
volunteer their expertise (or lack of), or contacts/friends (re: Richard Hegg's
and Dave Jones' talks last year).


Have fun,
Duncan

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