[GLLUG] Meeting Idea

[Robert Youngs, Jr.]

I haven't had the opportunity to really chime in lately, but, I think if 
meetings could be organized with a topic in mind and a solid meeting 
spot, I don't see any reason to believe why that kind of setup wouldn't 
succeed.

I am definitely interested in attending meetings if location and time 
can be consistent.  I was turned off when I went to meetings two weeks 
in a row back in the summer, but found no one there.

There's plenty happening that merits discussion and I agree that 
organizing meeting topics could help.

If anyone thinks it could be advantageous, I could pass the word around 
at where I work about GLLUG.

Robert Y.





On 2015-01-11 21:24, Chick Tower wrote:
> I know I've been stressing presentations at meetings as a way to get
> greater interest, but something occurred to me that might work just as
> well and be less demanding on individuals than preparing for a solo
> presentation would be.  What if we picked a topic for discussion in
> advance, and everyone who wants to attend should either study it some
> before the meeting or come up with some good questions, or both?
> 
> This idea was prompted by me wondering about using cloud services.
> During his presentation on CFEngine, Daniel mentioned that he has a
> mail server running on Digital Ocean, and that it costs him only five
> dollars a month.  I thought that was an interesting idea, but I later
> wondered how he set up his MX records, how do you make sure it's not
> an open relay for spam, if there was a default setup provided by
> Digital Ocean that he just had to tailor to his mail domain, and what
> other cloud/virtual server providers offer at what price.  I propose
> that we have some meetings where we discuss a particular topic, and I
> would like this to be one of them.  I can only make the second meeting
> of each month, though, so I request that we save this one for one of
> those meetings.
> 
> There must be other topics that would be of broad, general interest to
> GLLUG members.  One topic that might have been promising is systemd,
> but that seems to be a done deal now in the vast majority of
> distributions, so it's moot.  Perhaps some other topics of interest
> would be checkbook programs, blog software and hosts, local broadband
> providers for the home, and security certificates.  Feel free to
> suggest other topics, as I don't claim to have a monopoly on good
> ideas.  I would think they would be things we all have to do at some
> time, or hardware many of us use.  Maybe even everyone bring a bunch
> of useful websites to the meeting to share with others, like
> duckduckgo.com.
> 
> What would YOU like to see covered?