I think the format we had - alternating between advanced and entry-level
lectures (standard and SiL lectures) is the best. As long as people know the
lectures are bi-weekly and come in the appropriate weeks, we both have a
weekly meeting for keeping the club alive, while each group has a chance to
hear lectures in their own level. Recall, that haifux was bi-weekly until we
started W2L and SiL.
Maybe we should have more diffrentiation between levels:
- W2L - a fixed-length lecture series for those totally new to Linux, given
once per year, maybe coordinated nationally and with a linux day.
- SiL - standard lectures that bring a linux newbie to become a linux
hacker. Things like shells and editors, installing from source, compiling
the kernel, users and permissions, filesystems and mounts, etc. Probably
to be given in alternating weeks after W2L.
- Basic lectures - lectures which require only knowledge from W2L and maybe
a bit of SiL to be understood. Mostly focus on "how do I ... in Linux",
where "..." is something an average user might want to do, or at least
consider.
- Social/Planning meetings - preperation/feedback for W2L/SiL/Linuxday,
promoting linux, etc.
- Advanced lectures - All the rest we know and love: programming,
internals, security protocols, lambda calculus, ...
It seems like the queue we have now is mostly advanced lectures, though my
lecture can be considered "basic".
Alon
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
Those I can arrange for - infancy problems are quite easy to generate,
no doubt, but I'm also talking about the people. Many CS undergrads
had some interest in Haifux for a long time, but felt alienated by the
high level of the lectures, and the low undergrad attendance. I
believe those two can be fixed by
A. 'Dumbing down' the lectures. That sounds awful, doesn't it? But I'm
talking about encouraging additional entry-level lectures. I can put
my money (=time) where my mouth is, and give those myself, and I have
some more people in mind which I'll be talking to about them giving
lectures.
B. Working with the CS undergrad courses. This semester I mentioned my
VIM lecture to a Matam TA, who mentioned it to Kimchi, who mentioned
it to his class... and Taub 3 instantly became packed. Unfortunately,
I didn't know that was going to happen, so the lecture was quite a bit
too-high level. Still, almost everybody stayed for the full two hours,
and several came for more lectures.
I'm not saying that we oldies should quit.
Please don't! None of us youngsters have the experience and knowledge
required to give the interesting high-level lectures, which we (and
I'm speaking for the more advanced users) really enjoy.
BTW, I'm fine with tuesday.
\m/
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