Colin Hards clive1248@hotmail.com wrote:
I can't do anything as I see myself as the pupil here.
Then it will be ever thus.
Do you mean I should be organising a venue?
Maybe helping rather than organising. We seem OK for venues in your area just now, but some more southern or western ones would be nice. The King's Lynn venue is suspended until there's enough interest again. (Either people can tell me when they want one and I'll see what I can do, or someone else can take it over.)
That said, I'm fairly sure all venue people are working alone or nearly right now, so if you can help, make yourself known to one you can help (I think email addresses are on http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/ pages). Booking and marshalling a venue is part of it, but there could be a lot of extra material produced, advertising, announcing on web sites that we don't know about. That sort of thing. We probably need to get booked *and planned* a bit more in advance than a couple of weeks, though.
For talks/demos, you could comment on what you want to know about, either in specifics (like my Morphix request) or general terms (I don't know how foo works -- can someone explain at a meeting?). This goes for everyone. A bit more feedback on the poster idea would be nice.
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That's what I'm doing - asking for them. I also saw some suggestions before Christmas on this mail list of the possibility of lecture or talks being started early this year. So I've waited to see if any of these came about.
Thanks for asking. I waited to see if there was much interest. There didn't seem to be many people talking. Maybe everyone was waiting to see?
[...] If you need subject suggestions, I'm happy to list a few.
Please do. Alternatively, I could try to work through this syllabus, one topic at a time? http://www.lpi.org/en/obj_101.html
Maybe you know of better ones to do with normal use? It's still rather easier to find sysadmin type things.
[...] Give us a file to download from the web site, we each print out 100 or so at home.
Meeting announcements are available on the web site and could make an A5 announcement without much trouble. If you can improve it, please let me know what changes to make. I'm thinking that I could leave out the right column, people listing and discussion link. Is that best?
[...] If I can help Alug I'm willing to give it a shot.
Where we have identified tasks (library, list, web uploading, venues) then we're mostly OK, but there are definitely other tasks that need identifying and doing, as your message highlights.
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hands on. Sounds good. Again, I'm happy to suggest a few for the list.
Please do. I'd like to know what is wanted by listeners, rather than guessing all the time. I got tired of guessing. Shame on me.