RE: Meeting Agendas and Organization

["Burke, Jason" <JBurke@lrs.com>]

I've been wanting to do an installfest since earlier this year,
but I just can't find anywhere suitable to have it at. With the
research and collections building getting back in order it 
may be a possibility to have it there, but we'll have to speak
with Erich about it first. I've come to the conclusion that 
the museum is our only ally for getting things done since
no other entity seems interested (I've tried to get LRS to 
host LinuxMentors, and the Installfest, but I haven't gotten
any positive response back about it). 

However, I don't think that the installfest is the only (or best) 
way to help out our new members. Your idea for doing a quick
presentation on the different commands is great, and this is
exactly what I'm talking about: thinking outside the box and
coming up with creative solutions to our issues. Now if we
could only get the older, and more experienced members to
join in this talk I'm sure we could get some really good ideas.

In any event, one of the biggest problems we have is how to
accommodate varying levels of skill while keeping it interesting
for everyone, and maintaining some type of group direction
overall. At this point the group has been very reactionary by
having meetings based on what's going on in the industry,
but I think we'll be better served by trying to be more 
informative about the system rather than current events. 
Either way, I'm interested in hearing what's on Steve's mind
about this topic.

Care to comment Steve?

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:	Tuesday, October 26, 1999 11:45 AM
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> Subject:	Re: Meeting Agendas and Organization
> 
> 
> "Burke, Jason" wrote:
> ...
> > So for us to be able to help out these new members it is
> > imperative that we think outside the admin box for a moment,
> > and revisit some of those old, dusty beginners topics (such as
> > system commands, using grep, FSS, etc).
> 
> Were we gonna do an install fest (where there'd be a high concentration of
> beginners) sometime soon?  Seems to me that we might wanna put any big
> concentrations of newbie help in a big chunk that's obviously
> newbie-oriented.  Although, "explore your the simple command of the week
> in
> depth" somewhere in each meeting might be kinda cool.  Take a command
> (like
> grep) and talk about it in-depth, going over all the obtuse options it
> has,
> etc. - maybe with some demo runs if we have a computer and screen...  Then
> newbies get exposed to useful basic commands, and usually most everyone
> else sees yet another command they had but didn't know all about. :)  It's
> not an issue of remembering how to call them, but knowing the capability's
> there...
> 
> --Danny, who constantly learns new things on his systems
> 
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