[SLUG] Nomination acceptance

2005-03-20 Thread Grant Parnell 
It occurred to me that I should actually formally accept the nomination 
for the SLUG Secretary in the upcomming election. I do accept.

FWIW I don't think I did as good a job as Mary did (2003-2004) but at 
least I've eventually gotten things sorted out. There's lots of things I 
wanted to get done but didn't manage to do so. Therefor I'll publicly 
state my aims for SLUG in the coming year.

* I want to get more youth involved because a) they have more time to do 
stuff and b) I like teaching stuff.
* I'd like to hold monthly hands on workshops somewhere - Anyone got a 
club house with some storage available?
* I'd like to see more audience participation at SLUG
- debates?
- quiz?
- demos
- training
* I'd like to hold the committee meetings via IRC.

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination acceptance

2005-03-20 Thread QuantumG 
Grant Parnell wrote:
* I want to get more youth involved because a) they have more time to do 
stuff and b) I like teaching stuff.
 

Can I just mention another good reason to encourage kids who are 
interested in programming to start hacking on open source projects:

   kids have a better understanding of "fun"
Maybe I'm just cynical but it always seems that so many hackers these 
days see "working" on open source as "work".  Maybe if we had more kids 
hacking on open source projects they could remind us of all the joy we 
get out of it.

Trent
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Re: [SLUG] Nomination acceptance

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Deigan 
quote("Grant Parnell");
>It occurred to me that I should actually formally accept the nomination 
>for the SLUG Secretary in the upcomming election. I do accept.

Just got told/reminded, I accept for the normal position.

yay!

-Chris
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