[lug] Tossing out ideas...

[Doug Dew]

Wayde,

BJUG has had good success with a dual ("newbies" and "regular") meeting
format. The newbies meeting occurs immediately before the regular meeting.
The agendas of the two meetings are coordinated, so that the presentations
of the regular meeting tend to build upon the presentations of the newbies
meeting.

The newbies meetings are well attended, and many of the people attending the
newbies meeting stay for the regular meeting.

The newbies meeting also recieves regular support in the form of food
(pizza, cokes, etc.) from a local recruiting agency.

Chris Hogue (hogue at avitek.com) ran BJUG until just recently. I'm not certain
to whom he turned over his responsibility.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Wayde Allen
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 10:50 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Tossing out ideas...


On 14 Jan 2000 socket at peakpeak.com wrote:

> I spoke with Wayde before the meeting yesterday, and he suggested
> something to me that seems like such a good idea that I thought it
> should be brought up on the list...
>
> It's possible that newcomers might not be as interested in discussion
> on very specific or technical topics.  I really like the meetings as
> they are, but I can imagine that if I were new to Linux and just
> wanted to see what it's all about, the meetings would be interesting
> but waaay over my head.

I think I'd better make sure that we give credit where credit is due.
This isn't a new idea, and not necessarily my idea, it is something that
has been suggested by several people over the years.  I won't name names
for fear of forgetting someone.

The CLUE group has basically implemented this idea with their KISS (Keep
it Simple Stupid) sessions, and I had asked Chris if he thought this was
something that BLUG should be doing too?  (Hey Lynn - how is this working
out for the CLUE group?)

One concern I have is meeting length.  Several years ago we tried
including a 10 minute software demo at the beginning of the meetings prior
to the featured presentation.  In practice these were probably more like
30 minute demos, and I got a fair number of complaints about the length of
the meetings.  Any thoughts?

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)


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