[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, August 24

Caleb Cushing xenoterracide at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 12:08:32 EDT 2006


are we going to be maintaining the current schedule? are we going to be
attempting to have new presentations? maybe just not as hard? or are we just
going to start having social meetings?

On 8/22/06, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com> wrote:
>
> Thomas Hruska wrote:
> > This week's topic is apparently "Optimization:  System Tuning" according
> > to the calendar.  Last week's meeting had a large number of people show
> > up and we sat in a totally different area of the cafe (just for kicks).
> >  Someone noted that more people show up on non-agenda nights.  We had a
> > good laugh at that comment but it is true.  I have noticed that agenda
> > nights tend to have fewer people show up.  Maybe it is just really bad
> > timing or maybe deep down in the subconscious people think, "oh, I'm not
> > interesting in that topic or that speaker is sooo boring - I think I'll
> > stay home this week".  I'd like to think that the meetings are just good
> > "hang out" places to get away from the daily grindstone.  Who cares if
> > the speaker is "boring" or the topic is uninteresting?  There's plenty
> > of time to chat about stuff.  And the agenda isn't necessarily static -
> > neither is the speaker.  Good friendly folk.  Free food.  Nice
> environment.
> >
> > Those are my reasons to show up besides the speaker and topic.  This
> > group is a really nifty bunch of people with a wide variety of different
> > interests and goals.  I'm planning on going this week even though I'm
> > not all that interested in the topic (unless we're talking about
> > optimizing out 3 minutes from the boot up/shutdown cycle - that would
> > probably interest a number of Ubuntu users in the group...especially
> > since we bring laptops to the meetings).
>
> The topic has been abandoned since we were planning on having more
> volunteers for this meeting (sort of show-and-tell style). I agree with
> the observation that we seem to have more attendees when there isn't a
> specific topic. I'm not sure if this is just coincedence or what,
> because I can't imagine most of our members skipping out on entire
> meetings just because they'd have to sit through an hour or so of
> something that they *might* not be interested in. But the numbers seem
> to be suggesting otherwise thus far.
>
> It's been difficult getting people to do presentations, so Jeff and I
> thought we'd schedule the next few months with topics and see if we
> could get anyone to fill the slots that way, but it's proven just as
> hard. Since everyone seems to enjoy the topic-free meetings (I know I
> do), those will probably become the norm rather than the exception.
> We'll still have topics some nights (next week is Linux in Law
> Enforcement, and then an Installfest after that), but I'm probably done
> with trying to keep every single week filled. Unless, that is, anyone
> has any suggestions on what I could be doing differently or better. I'm
> still trying to get a decent calendar interface up on the GLLUG site.
> The Google one is just temporary.
>
> Would anyone be able/willing to put together a flyer for the Installfest
> in two weeks? Every time I sit down to do it, I get interrupted with
> something more pressing. Doesn't need to be fancy, all we need is:
>
> * The word "Linux" in big bold letters somewhere
> * maybe one or two sentences about Linux
> * "free Linux CDs and software"
> * "experts will be on-hand to assist"
> * location and time
> * http://www.gllug.org
>
> See you all at the meeting.
> --
> Charles Ulrich
> Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com
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