[GLLUG] Meeting Presentations

[Stanley C. Mortel]

I think that setting up one meeting a month as presentation night would 
be great.  It might motivate many of us to take a more active role.  The 
meetings we have now are nice, but I know there is a lot more knowledge 
transfer that could be happening.  Maybe the first meeting (or last) of 
the month could be a "what I discovered this month" round table.

Stan

Chick Tower wrote:
> As those of you who come to meetings know, we don't have many 
> presentations any more.  Something some of us have discussed are what 
> has been referred to in other places as lightning talks.  They're short 
> presentations, with several per meeting, so that nobody has to prepare a 
> lengthy one.  We could have a theme for each meeting, with short talks 
> from people about the theme, such as favorite applications of a 
> particular genre (e-mail clients, file managers, whatever might be 
> informative)(not emacs vs. vi types of talks), favorite search engines, 
> favorite PC-related shopping sites, general or special-use 
> distributions, or anything anyone cares to suggest.  Whatever people are 
> interested in.  We could also have some themeless talks, too, just a 
> hodge-podge of topics.
>
> What does everyone think about this?  Would you be more likely to 
> contribute a short presentation than a long one?  Should we select a 
> particular meeting or two each month, such as the first or second 
> Thursday?  I'm just asking questions, and hoping for responses.
>