[newbie] Re: [discuss] Meetings

[Ken Murray]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:15, David Bronaugh wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> What do people here think of having a more technical presentation on 
> every even-numbered month (for instance, on kernel internals, Gnome app 
> development, KDE/QT dev, etc)?
> 
> Ideas, suggestions, comments, all welcome. Flames &> /dev/null

I can't say that I agree with your suggestion.

I translate it as this:  "How about we turn away a large number of our
membership on every even-numbered month?"

In my opinion, one of the mandates of a LUG is to promote newbies and I
can't honestly see a good reason to exclude them from a full half of all
meetings.

I do suggest that this might be a good time to consider having SIG
meetings outside of our regular monthly meetings.  We could have a
Newbie SIG, a Guru SIG, etc.

I do think that devoting half a year's worth of monthly meetings would
turn potential new members away, and we do need new members.

This post is CC'd to the VLUG Newbie list in hopes of garnering a more
public response to these ideas than the ones that have been expressed to
me personally in private.

BTW, no flamage intended.


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