Keith Watson kpwatson@luna.co.uk wrote:
[...] It occurs to me that June, July and August (and possibly September)
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Quite possibly. Up until now, we've just slotted in with the national days, which have been May/June time, I think. Of course, we're always able to do installs if people give us a bit of warning to bring the right disks.
wrt ideas for the meetings, how about starting a round robin topic list of things we'd like to know more about? [...]
Nice idea, but we already accept suggestions on the list and can add them to the meeting page as soon as someone agrees to them. That reminds me: I should update the meeting page with the things people have agreed to do (eg the Linux handheld).
for example I'd like someone to spend 1/2 hour going over the whole ./configure, make, make install thing (nothing heavy, you know words of one syllable or less) so I'd have some idea of what I'm doing. [...]
Should we try to schedule the meeting? Some 1/2 hour slots for people to present different topics at the round table and those uninterested can go play with the boxes?
Unfortunately I'm too new to GNU/Linux to offer much in return. [...]
Oh, you're already offering, don't worry.
[...] I've got a fair bit of background in relational d/b's if that's of any interest but nothing on any Linux ones.
I was just at quite a good talk about PostgreSQL at Peterboro' LUG not too long ago. It's always interesting for us relatively new database users to hear from those with long experience of real-world problems.
If there the was a list of potential topics of interest maybe we could pick off those we felt able to say something useful about and also vote for those we'd like to know more about.
Well, voting is a bit, well, organised, isn't it? If you have something to say or a preference to express, then speak up on-list. Same goes for all you lurkers out there!
used to run themed workshop events e.g a series of 4/5/6 meetings on a specific topic, say project management or web page design or whatever. It takes a bit of
Trouble is you run the danger of people skipping the meetings if they don't think that the topic interests them. With ALUG getting together relatively infrequently in each location, I feel that a mix of topics at each place is likely to work better.
My Opinion Only. Feel free to blast me.
MJR