[Sussex] RE: Sussex Digest, Vol 22, Issue 11

[Gareth Ablett]

> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 15:56 +0000, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> > This is probably one of the main problems up until now its been
> > nice but all we are doing is socializing, we need to have the
> > meetings as more of a learning experience to some. And we need to
> > supply that as a service to you all.
> 
> I agree entirely (three cheers for us ;-) ).
> 
> > I do think we need to keep the social bit but we need it separate
> > so some people can go early and some can stay but we need at least
> > 2 hours put aside for presentations/help evenings/ Q&A etc. In fact
> > I think it should be a bit more formal in some sense.
> 
> Agreed.  I've always felt that the meeting should be more "Homebrew
> Computer Club" than "Diners Club".
> 
> I was talking to the LUG master of the Ottawa LUG the other day and he
> said that he and some other "senior" members of the LUG arrange
> voluntary homework for noobs to go and try and then they help them out
> with it at the next meet.  Would that sort of thing be of interest to
> the group?  There are plenty of experienced UNIX/Linux hackers here
who
> could be helping out noobs in such a manner.
> 

all this in mind would it be a good idea to spend a few minutes during
this months Moot to go over a few ideas for future and see what every
one thinks.

I for one like the idea of homework style stuff, also having a timetable
of sorts where we take each night and split it up so we spend time doing
things that certain people want to know about.
Say if we find out before that someone wants to know more about X
package/language/system/tool we can prepare notes etc before hand.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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