> > 1. seperate mailing list restricted for lecture announcements > > (week in advance), which > > includes date, subject, short description. > > OK. It can be done. It was done, We always had a mailing list for these events (called [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Last time, we just forgot to mention it... Don't worry. the mailing list exist.
> > 2. make lectures about ways to apply certain free open sourced > > applications sperated by business / studies / home. (like clustering, > > firewall in 10 steps, how to move ur commercial database to open source) > > / (how to compute with -100 nis in ur pocket) / (how to make a computing > > bomb in ur own home) / ( etc....). > > I'm not sure if we can afford to specialize like that. I suggest we make > something that appeals to the general audience. Those who wish to know how > to do specialized task would RTFM and STFW with our help. There is a problem - we have limited time and limited resources. As part of your suggestions are given in regular club's meetings, I'd rather focus on "welcome 2 Linux", i.e., new users of Linux (basic topics covered). > > 3. add voting capability in the site, so people who want to lecture can ask > > what the audience would want to hear the most. > > On-line voting hardly ever works, and I seriously doubt it will work here. > The previous times we tried to make a poll we were lucky to receive %10 of > the audience. Actually this figure is very low. About 40% to 50% of the people attending a lecture filled in the feedback forms. > > 4. decide (voting/arbitraraly) on someone/people who will sacrifice his > > cell phone number to help people arrive, or being the public contact > > point with the club, and to try to remove the obscurity from the club as > > much as possible. > > I am willing to answer cell-phone calls, but I'm not sure this has been > the problem. As usual in these cases - once you sugggested this you have volunteered yourself... ;). Anyway, this might be nice to have some person who can answer phones for the sake of the series. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
