Hi Wikey, To your question:
I think the nature of the meetup should (for now) be primarily* about first-mile user-education*, so installation and troubleshooting queries about Ubuntu would take priority. Of course, if there's a mailing list/forum/FB group (I definitely prefer the latter), people can project in advance what they want to discuss - and then go get their own coffee table during the weekly meeting - no problems there. If somehow we have enough attendees that we get at at least one party going off to discuss user-land kernel hacks in a corner - I think it'd be an over-achievement already. And yes, I completely imagined this being in a *public location* for ease of access - also, it's good for branding and visibility (i.e. spreading the meme, and getting it to go viral). Other thoughts: - This is basically about *fixing the last-mile of open-source software propagation*. Most people don't get into FOSS because they're not geeky enough by nature - so why don't we help them by meeting up face to face and de-geeking the technology a little bit? - In the not-too-distant future I might want to set up a company dealing in Ubuntu, Xen, and Open PAASes - but this sort of event would definitely be non-profit, i.e. social work by geeks for the general public. Perhaps this sort of event would be incubated by the new company (anyone who didn't like that affiliation could obviously fork the event, and set up their own social work centre elsewhere :P). - Another idea is to set up an F&B thing, a bar or cafe type place which is themed as a social centre for this sort of social work by geeks for the public. This would be for-profit - but attendance at such events would be free, since the tech-support would be crowd-sourced. "I am interested in helping non-geeks with Ubuntu, for free" Sheet (once we hit 15 people, I'll set up the FB page): - Jerng <[email protected]> - Wikey Lim <[email protected]> - Umarzuki Mochlis <[email protected]> Jerng --- Yang Jerng HWA +6 016 235 2931 Kuala Lumpur (GMT +8:00) On 14 April 2011 10:36, Wikey Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jerng, > > I like idea 1, especially the hairdresser part :). IMHO, VM/Cloud > is an area that if you need it, chances are you have the skill to > search/learn by yourself, so it is more of a G4G (geeks for geeks). > > So, what is the nature of the meetup? Is it a: > 1. Troubleshooting clinic where people come with their machines > with all kinds of problems to be fixed (antivirus, install Linux, > etc.) or; > 2. We choose a topic (GIMP, LibreOffice, etc.) and people who like > to learn it can attend (no troubleshooting on your WiFi setting or > whatsoever)? > > I would also suggest that if the meetup is a troubleshooting style > it is to be held in a public venue so that people are more comfortable > to drop by with their valuable machines. > > My RM0.02, of course. > > > regards, > Wikey > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Hwa, Yang Jerng <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok - let me reiterate and clarify my intentions a bit here: > > 1. Spec > > Achieve higher Ubuntu adoption by non-software-professionals > > > > Possible Solution Architecture > > Organise weekly meetups where at least 1 experienced Ubuntu user is present, > > and able to provide free tech-support to n00bs and hairdressers et al. > > Disclaimer > > This means that if you're not interested in providing free tech-support to > > n00bs and hairdressers et al. you should not bother replying to this thread. > > :) > > > > 2. Spec > > Achieve higher VM/cloud-computing adoption by software professionals: > > Possible Solution Architecture > > Organise weekly meetups where at folks with any interest or experience in > > this can show up, try to set up hive-minds in 2 hours, and go home having > > learnt something about it. > > 3. Disclaimer > > If > > > > - you're not interested in exploring ANY of these topics on a weekly basis, > > or > > - you're not interested in spending lots of time with non-techies about > > these topics > > > > you should not bother replying to this thread. > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general
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