[GLLUG] Possible future meeting junk

[basher584]

I prefer:

1. Announcements
2. Presentation
3. free-form.

That way if you are busy you can just stop by for the presentation and jet once its done in case you are busy.

If we put the free-form before the presentations we never know when the presentation begins and you have to sit there and listen to everyone babble on about how Evolution sucks, freeBSD rules etc.  :)

Just my .01..

-Ben



On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:36:27PM -0500, Matt Graham wrote:
> 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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