[Wylug-admin] Organizing WYLUG - techiness

[Tom Hall]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM, John Leach <john at johnleach.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  > On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 19:30 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>  > One thing to be aware of is that there are now several other groups
>  > within Leeds and environs that have overlapping areas of interest with
>  > Wylug - for example:-
>  >       - GeekUp
>  >       - Leeds.pm (really still in startup mode)
>  >
>  > It may be that a degree of inter-group co-operation could be helpful
>  > on all sides - especially in terms of talk reuse...
>
>  Yes, absolutely.
>
>  My feeling is that WYLUG is a lot more techie than GeekUp (Louisa refers
>  to WYLUG as GeekierUp :), that might be a good thing to play up.  Also,
>  GeekUp does also appear to be very web-development focused.
>
>  Though this may also be a problem - I'm not sure what WYLUG's "target
>  market" is.  As I understood the idea was to have two talks each
>  meeting, one techier than the other, though I feel things have generally
>  been out of reach of "newbies".  Not sure if this needs to change.
>
>  Further discussion is necessary perhaps as it will no doubt effect the
>  speakers we go in search for.
>
>  John.
>

I wish folk were more forthcoming about what they want to hear talks
on, simple stuff some of us take for granted may well be interesting
to many.