With an installfest right before us, members of the UUG have a great responsibility concerning those showing a budding interest in Unix. The words of M Russel Ballard may apply as we encourage UUG members "to help new converts make the transition into the [UUG] following [installfest.] ...We know from years of experience that the first contacts new converts have with members in [the UUG] are critical to the conversion process."
As such we call upon members of the UUG to participate in the Newbie Meeting to be held on Thursday, January 26th at 7:30pm. We ask for volunteers to present on: The Gnome and KDE Desktops Customization of settings Adding users Layout Essential Applications (or standard works) OpenOffice Gimp Mozilla Sendmail mplayer/totem xmms Installing new toys apt-get yum rpms tar files The Command Line basic commands (work with installing new toys presenter) Each section should take between 15 and 20 minutes (NO MORE). Think Home Teaching: get your message across, make it interesting, and leave! Consider again the words of M Russell Ballard: "During [this e-mail] we challenged our young men [and women] to better prepare themselves to serve the [Open Source Community]. We asked them to be worthy, qualified, [technically adept], energized [UUGies]. They need to know the message of the [opening of the source code] and teach it with power in their own words under the guiding influence of [Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman]." By honing you presentation skills you will be better prepared to go out into the world post-graduation and spread the good Operating System(s). Those interested in this great calling please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those interested in working with other people on a specific topic are encouraged to do so. -Jamie K. Cummings- PS, lack of interest may result in a new topic called "Nobility in serving your LUG. Why you shouldn't fear the Draft." -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
