[GLLUG] Possible future meeting junk

[Brian Hoort]

I second that comment. I would always feel like I was missing something in 
the other room... The way it works now, if you want to talk about 
something, ask a question or bring up a topic.

At 03:56 PM 4/23/2002, you wrote:

>I see that as a problem.  Most of the time during the free discusion I
>find myself interested in more then just one of the topics.  If we were to
>break it up, and even go so far as to have different rooms, it would be
>more difficult to listen to more then one of the conversations at once.
>
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>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Paul Donahue wrote:
>
> > Matt,
> >
> > sounds like a good thing to discuss in the "Free-form discussion"
> >
> >
> >
> > >>> Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> 04/23/02 03:36PM >>>
> > It seems like we've been getting pretty high turnout at the last few
> > GLLUG meetings.  This is good, but I'm wondering is the current
> > structure is really the best use of everybody's time... it's gone like
> > so:
> >
> > 1.  Introductions
> > 2.  Food
> > 3.  Free-form discussions of various topics with everybody in the room
> > 4.  Presentation, if one is scheduled
> > 5.  More free-form discussion, until meeting's over
> >
> > Would people like it better if things went like so?
> >
> > 1.  Introductions
> > 2.  Food
> > 3.  Presentation, if we have one
> > 4.  Break into smaller groups, maybe like so:
> >     * "BSD roundtable" Q&A with Ed and other BSD users, for those who
> > are BSD-curious
> >     * "Linux troubleshooting" session for people who have just
> > installed a distro, are feeling lost, or have problems with getting
> > certain hardware to work
> >     * "Ask the Networking Wizards" for people who are having network
> > problems or just want to learn more about ipchains/iptables
> >     * "General discussion" just like previous
> >     * "vi vs. emacs:  10-round deathmatch" --er, maybe not....
> >
> > Main problem I see is that there probably aren't enough free rooms at
> > AAI for this sort of thing.
> >
> > 5.  Wrap up with more general discussion/administrivia with everybody
> > in the same room
> >
> > Just a thought, since free-form discussion can get unwieldly if there
> > are ~30 people in the same room--harder to get everybody's voice heard,
> > etc.  Let everybody know what you think....
> >
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