The 'Show and Tell' is exactly what I had in mind for the SRCLE meetings. It turned more into a social gathering more like your second idea. I would love to have a more presentation friendly environment for the gathering. That is hard to locate in combination with Internet access. David said something that I hadn't really realized at the last meeting. With the growth of the Internet a LUG is not as necessary as it once was. Its quite easy for many to try Linux on their own and have access to help they need with their favorite search engine. LUGs seem to be migrating to a more social thing.
IRC is nice but I honestly haven't used it since my warez days using windows 98. If there is a formal time to gather and chat I will try and make it but off hand I am not that enthusiastic about it. However I will definitely try and make a meeting if you find a location for the weekend of the 12th. The SRCLE meeting is the following weekend. On 11/6/06, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Roger, These are great ideas. If you want to use IRC... I've been idling in #909linux for, oh about 2 years now. I don't think a single person has ever joined since at least 2004. ( and I put the server up when the domain was regged... ) :) You know, I kind of liked the way the guys in Murietta met up. They just meet at a coffee house that has free wi-fi, and it's very bring-yourself only kind of thing. Kind of a social gathering, but we all had a great conversation. I think we should at least get together and tell war-stories... or examine the whole M$ thing. Show & Tell would be cool too. Last week in Murrieta, I guess I informally showed making VOIP calls on the Nokia 770 handheld, I could bring that if anyone up here wanted to play with it. I had a mental note to stop by the Fox coffee house on Barton, or else find one in Grant Terrace that had wi-fi and see if they had 2 large-ish tables where people could gather on a Sunday evening. Anyone know of another place we could gather a group of 5 or more and use free wireless? :) What about next Sunday, the 12th? 6-ish pm? --David Roger Rustad wrote: > What do other 909/951'ers think about these ideas? > > (1) Show and Tell: At the next meet, each of us brings something > interesting to share with the other members. You name it -- a hack > tool, a new distro, some cool *nix implementation at work, how you got > out of some recent s(h)ituation, etc. When it's your turn, you spend > time telling the rest of the group about your cool shiznit. > > (2) Weekly / Biweekly / Monthly Conference Call: Using something like > Skype, FreeConferenceCall.com, or a SIP-based phone, we could have > virtual meetings. We could tie this into some IRC channel for sensory > overload. If we did (1), then some of us could perhaps figure out how > to temporarily share our screen with the others. > > Rog > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
