I agree. A good balance is key. Bring this up on the 29th. On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Eduardo Sanz-Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Phillip Hellewell wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:45:51PM -0500, Adam Johnson wrote: > > > Hi Unix User Group. I'm going to be a new freshman in Fall. I'm an > avid Linux user(Ubuntu 7.10 right now). I've been looking around the > > > Speaking of incoming freshman and new leadership, here is a post from > Matt Probst a couple of years ago with some great ideas for meetings and > recruiting new members: > http://www.mail-archive.com/uug-list@uug.byu.edu/msg17464.html > > > I have, as a newbie, some suggestions too... > I think that the club should support a broad degree of technical abilities: > from very skillful users to newbies as me. Linux is for everybody, including > people that are not going to program with it, but need ways to play their > favorite music, videos, or use spreadsheet, etc. The club is doing a good > job spreading the good news of Linux, is the club also supporting these new > users? > I feel that the topics of the meetings have been too technical for newbies. > I only said that other aspect of Linux, no so technical should be covered so > no newbie feels intimidates by all you guys. > I also thing that every body should feel welcome to the meetings. A very > simple way to do that it is to introduce everybody in the meeting (I little > explanation of who you are, what are you using Linux for, your favorite > Linux distro (if you have one...), etc..). > I want to thank all guys for the email list, and the answers that I have > received to my questions. > Thanks. > > -------------------- > 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/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- AJ ONeal
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