[Scottish] ScotLUG 2004

[Ben Thorp]

Following a discussion on Thursday night in the Counting House, we now have
some offers of talks available, and I would like to propose the following
calendar:

January - Bring your favourite Linux book/gadget; time to show off all
those cool things you got for Christmas, and inspire some geek envy.
February - Neuro on Smoothwall
March - gordonjcp on encryption (aimed at all levels)
April - Easter Quiz (bigkevmcd? up for this again)
May - Gaming on Linux (volunteers to demo some games?)
June - Me (mrBen) on something - maybe Python or MagicPoint, or something
like that?

In addition, Tony (Dyer) has offered on the website to do a short beginners
corner slot each month, and I suggest we take him up on this for any months
he is present. Plus the usual Q+A session will be run.

Also, Willie will try and get in contact with Bob Kerr (the guy responsible
for getting OSS into libraries) and see if he is able to come and give a
talk on one of the months (in which case the schedule above will change)


As a point of note, the following issues were also raised:

1. Each week does not necessarily need to be a 'talk', nor does it
necessarily need to be the realm of a single individual. We want everyone
to feel that they are able to contribute to what happens. If you are
comfortable doing a 'talk' or presentation, then that's fine, but if you
would rather do things a little bit differently, then that's also fine.

2. The idea of a committee is one that brings fear into the heart of many,
most of whom have served on committee's until they're blue in the face.
Most open source projects successfully run without a committee, but rather
by peer review and discussion. The feeling on Thursday was that this was
the way forward, and that we should be able to organise ourselves without a
rigid organisational structure.


None of this is set in stone, but at least we now have something to go on.
Please can those on IRC ensure that any additional discussion is also
referenced to the list for completeness sake.

Ben Thorp