I'm not a mud-slinger--nor have I ever been, sorry.
I am in favor of frequent meetings because I have a different idea of
how to run a UUG meeting:
If elected, the first thing I would do would be to set up a calender on
the website that posted when each meeting would be--and what the topic
is. Whenever possible, subtopics would be listed on the calender, and
individual users could sign up to speak on a topic/subtopic on the
website. If no one signs up--then we would spend a portion of the
meeting trying to figure it out--as a group. The week after, we'd have
a bit of time at the beginning where we would revisit a topic, and talk
about what we learned since we last had met.
The nice thing about this setup is that it caters to so many different
levels of users. Some people might need to ask, "What is ext3?" whereas
others will want details regarding the differences between its
journaling system and that of JFS.
Also, to make sure that we aren't just reading documentation as a group
all the time--if people don't sign up, then they might get a kindly
request to speak on a subtopic--and learn a little bit about it before
hand. It's basically the sunday school approach--only it's a 5-10
minute talk/presentation instead of an hour lesson.
I call this the "Open-Source meeting plan."
That's not to say we won't still invite quality speakers--and have them
give presentations. Those types of meetings would still be scheduled as
such, and I will do my best to invite knowledgeable speakers to our
meetings. I, also, would love to send out an invitation to Guido van
Rossum (inventor of Python), and see if we could get him to come and
speak at a meeting--along with any other talented developer/programmer
you could think of.
As for topics--right after I am elected, I would start a thread
entitled, "What interests you?" or "What do you want to know more
about?" I also read through all the UUG emails, and am keeping track of
what people have said. Meetings will be planned around that.
I'm also in favor of pizza--and cookies. I have a gluten intolerance,
so I can't eat them myself--but, hey, that just means more for you!
For the record--I'm not short--I'm concentrated (besides, when was 6'
even considered short?).
Sorry for not posting to this thread earlier--I've been totally stooped
in AFS documentation, trying to figure out how to get it to use native
Kerberos 5 tickets.
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