Do you have any specific questions for the candidates? Basically as your president I would do the same stuff as I do now but instead of saying "perhaps...", I'd say "baring no objections let's..." and perhaps I'd throw out more ideas.
As I've said before, I'm interested in making sure that things are semi-well organized and that decisions are made and when it's 6 for one, half-a-dozen for the other I'll just flip a coin (or go on my personal bias) and say 'divine providence has voted in favor of 'the other' and thus shall we do'. I'm not going to personally give a lot of presentations, but I'll strongly encourage those of you with the more specific know-how to do that. A typical meeting under my rule would probably go something like: As every one is filing in we do some chatter about interesting things that we've learned, cool programs that have recently come out, etc. Once our presenter is ready we have a discussion on X topic - be it learning python, setting up a mail server, or an installfest whatever and ask questions along the way. Towards the end we restate the dates of the next few meetings and who the presenters will be and what will be discussed, possibly changing dates if other events interfere or supersede. Whenever attendance gets low for a few months in the row we'll have pizza and root beer as part of the presentation in next meeting. _Currently_, I'm slightly opposed to the 2 meetings a month idea. I think one meeting a month is good because if we have one meeting a month I think we'll have higher activity at each meeting and higher activity infrequently is more productive than lower activity frequently in my mind. If we get a good start on things and we have too many people showing up to fit into a room, 2 meetings a month would be great. I'm not even married like some of you and I think that just getting in home teaching for 2 or 3 people a month is a significant contribution of my time. (Speaking of rooms, I'm much more a fan of the rooms where we can sit in a semi-circle or gather around a few tables rather than a lecture hall.) During our meeting thursday there was a lot of good discussion and I'd like to see some of those things happen. I.E. I'm a fan of the idea of putting up a wiki with minutes and how to material from our meetings. I'd also like to see a member directory with some info about professions, skill-sets, and interests. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Von Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote name="Peter McNabb" date="Sat, 31 May 2008 at 14:45 -0500"> > > Ok, the polls are up now (thank you Scott for writing the django app). > There's a link on the main page, or you can go straight to it at: > http://uug.byu.edu/polls/group/1/ > > Before I have to vote and be stuck with our next despot-for-the-year, I > want some more campaigning! I've heard a couple of blurbs for two > presidential hopefuls and I know Topher wants books. I need more info > people. > > Von Fugal > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIRBMBAtA2KHFyYzQRAv5KAJ9nwO0BtneNMDubZkm5FxSnCdDwEgCgkrbs > XeEN34m4UEiB66acvpYQbxU= > =LU8h > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -------------------- > 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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