On Saturday, March 05, 2011 20:56:06 Eric Myers wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Sean Dague wrote: > > However, given that at least myself, and possibly others, are going to be > > there at 5pm for the room handoff, I'm open to the idea of using that > > time before the meeting start at 6pm in some other productive manner. > > Another group I've participated in uses such time before the regular > meetings for introduction instruction for newbies. It could help > for this group as well, if someone is willing to be there to help > the newbies. > > Just knowing the room is open and that others might already be there > might be enough for informal discussion before the presentation. > Or maybe show N tell for a particular tool or distro. > > -Eric
The hour before the meeting could also be used for "hack time" or for helping others do installs, both of which we've previously done at a different location on a particular day. Another idea that's been done at both NYLUG and LILUG is a programming "special interest group" meeting. [To start off with LILUG started with PHP and NYLUG started with Python, but both groups eventually adopted an "any language is fine" methodology.] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
