OT Thanks Mel... Its make me feeling up again to do volunteering works. Ada sikit down seminggu dua ni.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Meling Mudin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >> >> > Sorry to chime in an old topic, but I rarely read the list. Here's my > thoughts, based entirely on my experience running HSKL. > > > - Weekly meeting is good, but it's too frequent. Best is bi-weekly. > People tend to just linger around and not do anything productive if they > 'feel' compelled to meet every week. Over time, the crowd will become less > and less and disinterested. > - Expecting people to project in advance what to ask often fails in the > long run. As a community leader (if you want to be one), you have to decide > the topic for every meetup (at least for the first few meetups), prepare > the > materials, control the meetup (e.g. 30 mins of presentation, 10 mins of > Q&A, > 30 mins of hands-on, etc). Consistency, discipline and focus is the key to > a > successful meetup. > - Focus on "people". Who is your target? Non-geeks? That term is just > too broad. Make it specific. How about primary/secondary school students? > If > you focus on specific people, you will see them coming through the door, > and > you will feel glad. It gives you motivation. It drives you to do what you > want to do, and achieve what you want to achieve. It makes you want to go > the school and beg the headmaster/mistress an hour of school time so that > you preach Ubuntu. They're your drugs. Goals are more attainable if they're > concise. > > 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). >> >> > If you meant something visible like a coffee shop, then HSKL is not one. > But HSKL will always be there for the community to use. > >> >> - 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? >> >> Focus on primary/secondary school students. Why students: for the simple > reason that they are the most free to choose what they want to use in terms > of operating system. Professionals for example, don't really care much > because they use what their company provides, and most likely it's > some proprietary software, unless their work environment is otherwise. > > Open source is not about being geeky or non-geeky. It's about freedom to > choose. > > "I am interested in helping non-geeks with Ubuntu, for free" Sheet (once we >> hit 15 people, I'll set up the FB page): >> > > I don't believe in starting something only when you get enough people. I > think the minimum number of people you need is 2. When I started HSKL, we > got a lot of interests. 15-20 people attended the meetings. So I started > delegating. But nothing happened for a good 6 or 7 months. So I started > again, just me and another guy. No meetings, no arguments over where to > rent, no consensus, no votes - just a "get that goddamn thing off the > ground" attitude. And another one helped. And another. And finally a good > one month before renting a space, we have 30+ pledges - people who willingly > donated their money because they know that you're doing it for the greater > good. > > Best of luck, > > --mel > > > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- Malaysia Open Source Software Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 http://www.mosc.my/ LinuxMalaysia Network http://www.facebook.com/Bukan.Sekadar.Internet.Sahaja Harisfazillah Jamel
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