[SWLUG] Quietest meeting ever.

[James]

I am also one who would like to see more Linux at these meet ups. Im 
definately not known for being sociable - most the time I only speak 
when spoken to (unless I really know the people im with). The Lightning 
talks were a good change - enjoyed watching it - only downside was 
people just having 5 minutes to discuss a topic - that just felt too 
short - as soon as I was settled to their topic, time was up.

I still want to attend meet-up's, but college at the moment is being 
overly demanding with assignments, which has almost made me do nothing 
but college work recently.

It would really help for someone to bring a laptop in, and perhaps show 
how something can be done, for example. Theres still loads I need to 
learn about Linux (mainly setting up servers), and I doubt im the only 
one in this position.



Telsa Gwynne wrote:

>Ar Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:00:08AM +0100, ysgrifennodd Pete Prior:
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>>That would be Tuesday 28th March, 7pm onwards...
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>After an hour of sitting there with an O'Reilly bag, a clipboard 
>made out of circuit board, and a stupid slogan tshirt, I gave up 
>and came home. 
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>I think it is clear that the new improved rotating algorithm
>experiment has been a complete success in yielding clear-cut results. 
>Only trouble is the nature of the result. Result in Carmarthen: 
>attendance down by a half (and that was mostly people not from 
>the Carmarthen end of things). Result in Swansea: down to, um, one. 
>I have rarely seen such clear-cut results in any experiment.
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>I don't think I shall be coming again, so these suggestions
>are for other people to think about. But suggestions I have.
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>First, no-one comes to the Swansea one regularly, and those
>who turn up at all all seem capable of reaching either of the
>others under their own steam. So drop the Swansea meeting 
>completely. Frankly, no-one will notice. 
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>Then make the Carmarthen and Cardiff ones independent of each 
>other, as they used to be. They can still be advertised on the 
>same site and mailing list, but don't pull them both into an 
>artificial and complicated rota. Especially when the people who 
>suggest this rota themselves do not show up any more. The 
>Carmarthen and Cardiff regulars can set their own dates then, 
>based on their requirements, but I strongly urge that we forget 
>this "first a Monday, then a Tuesday" system. As the LUG HOWTO 
>says, pick a date, make it regular, and stick to it. 
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>If we ever achieve an actual event, along the lines of install days,
>lightning talks, and so on, we can discuss dates again. But this
>business of random dates for pub meets doesn't seem to be working.
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>Telsa
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