Re: First ManchLUG Meeting
I would find this a quite interesting talk! I've attempted to figure out what you can do with Blender once or twice and it's a bit of a morass. Seeing it actually do something useful could be quite cool. Eric On 08/25/10 06:36, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > I was talking with a young man (high school student) who was using > Blender to animate machine parts to see if they would fit together in a > robotic project he was helping with. His father (an old friend of mine) > and I were trying to encourage him to give a brief talk on it, both to > let other people know what Blender can do and to get some experience in > presenting. > > md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: First ManchLUG Meeting
On 08/24/2010 10:09 PM, Chip Marshall wrote: > Good evening, > > Just wanted to fire off a quick e-mail to thank everyone who came > out tonight to the first (hopefully of many) ManchLUG meeting. I > was pleasantly surprised by the turn out, and hope everyone had a > good time. > > For next month, I'd like to get a but more structure in place, > have some organized discussion topics, maybe a short > presentation. One topic that was put forth tonight was building a > media center system, which seems to be a pretty common task these > days, but one I haven't personally done with open source. So if > anyone would be interested on talking on that next month, please > let Kenta or myself know. > > > You guys did great! Congrats on a very successful first meeting. I wrote it up with a couple of links to resources we discussed at: http://blog.tedroche.com/ManchLUG-Launch -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: First ManchLUG Meeting
>I'm not advocating any particular approach; just trying to stir some >discussion. >One thing PySIG does that may help counter this is to have a block >of time explicitly scheduled for general Q&A, newbies, and "gotchas". >As I recall, they do that at 6:30 and any formal presentation starts >at 7 PM, and this is explicitly advertised, so people can choose what >they want. Once upon a time we: o had "dinner" beforehand o had the formal meeting start o had people introduce themselves, who they worked for or what distro they used, found out if this was their first time, etc. o had the presentation (1/2 hour to an hour depending on topic, how far the speaker came, etc.) o opened the meeting up for "discussions" o retired for more "libations" Over time we added "newbie nights" (we actually had "NUNs"...New User Nights...with floppies that had URLs, notes, etc. on them. Now the floppies are replaced by the website) We had our share of "installation fests", and we even had times where we invited people to talk about their favorite distribution or program...what they liked and why they liked it. That also stirred conversation and even some conversions: "VI""EMACS""VI""EMACS" We also had "quarterly meetings" where we appeared at a local college (Daniel Webster) when we had a speaker that we felt might attract a larger crowd. There are some in the Boston/New Hampshire area: o Jim Gettys (co-author of a lot of the X Window System) o Michael Stonebraker (Ingres, Postgres, and a bunch of other database stuff) o Keith Bostic (Sleepycat database and the main instigator of creating an AT&T free BSD Unix) o Dan Murphy (creator of TECO, the direct ancestor of emacs) o Doug McIlroy (Director of Labs that hired Thompson and Ritchie, the creators of Unix. Doug is credited with creating macros along with pipes and filters) o Bill McKeeman (compiler guru, one of main developers of Matlab) o Dan Geer (Computer security and risk management) o Doc Searls (Humanist and prolific writer...senior editor of Linux Journal) and many others. There are also lots of people from Red Hat's Westford labs and Novells' headquarters in Waltham that we could tap into. And we should not forget our own talents. There are a lot of good people in our extended family who could do a presentation. I was talking with a young man (high school student) who was using Blender to animate machine parts to see if they would fit together in a robotic project he was helping with. His father (an old friend of mine) and I were trying to encourage him to give a brief talk on it, both to let other people know what Blender can do and to get some experience in presenting. md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: First ManchLUG Meeting
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Chip Marshall wrote: > Just wanted to fire off a quick e-mail to thank everyone who came > out tonight to the first (hopefully of many) ManchLUG meeting. On behalf of... well, nobody, really... well, myself... but I'm not empowered to speak for anyone else... but I'd like to think that my opinion would reflect the sentiments of others... er, I'll come in again -- Thanks for hosting it! I enjoyed it, and I think everyone else did, too. You and Kenta did a great job. Well done! FYI, I counted at least 23 people there. > For next month, I'd like to get a but more structure in place, > have some organized discussion topics, maybe a short > presentation. One thing that was discussed over in my corner of the room was that having a "formal topic" may actually discourage attendance. If there's a presentation scheduled for reticulating splines, anyone not interested in spline reticulation is likely to skip it. One thing PySIG does that may help counter this is to have a block of time explicitly scheduled for general Q&A, newbies, and "gotchas". As I recall, they do that at 6:30 and any formal presentation starts at 7 PM, and this is explicitly advertised, so people can choose what they want. Or you could just have a meeting every month, with informal Q&A, and get people used to showing up every month. Then when presentations start happening, they're already in your evil clutches! Mooohhohohoahahahhaha... I mean, they're used to showing up and may be more likely to continue to do so. Or you could go right to lining up speakers every month. The Nashua group did it for years, and Concord, Peterborough and Dartmouth are still doing it. I guess it works! I'm not advocating any particular approach; just trying to stir some discussion. And Kenta and Chip are, of course, free to do whatever they like, since they're the ones actually doing the work. Anyone else have comments/suggestions/ideas/etc? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: First ManchLUG Meeting
> For next month, I'd like to get a but more structure in place, Diet and exercise... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
