[lug] Tossing out ideas...

[Hugh Brown]

Make a KISS session that is 1/2 hour demo and 1/2 hour instruction or QA,
then leave the regular meeting format alone.

Hugh

> 
> 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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