Hi folks,
I am an occasional attendee, and I noticed a similar tendency of folks
to gather with the others that they recognized. This group is not
unique in that tendancy, of course, and this IS New England...
Derek has the right idea, but I think it would be great to add a round
table intro to your agenda - (brief) who you are, why you are there,
your interests ... It would lengthen the meeting a bit, but I believe
many of your members come to those meetings as much to socialize and
meet with other Linux enthusiasts as to learn new things from the
speaker. Should be worth a try... (8-)>
David
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Derek says:
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>
>I agree it would have been nice if at least some of the memebers took
it upon themselves to introduce themselves to me. So why doesn't this
>happen?
>
>Well, I think for maybe two major reasons. One is that the
"membership" is fairly large, and though there are a few people that you
see at pretty much every meeting, there are still quite a few faces that
I don't recognize at every meeting I've been to.
>
>The weird thing is I probably know a lot of them through the list. We
>just don't know what eathother look like. Point being that a lot of
>people just wander in to various meetings, and I think often there are
a lot of people that don't know each other, so they are all in the same
>boat, perhaps waiting for others to introduce themselves. The author
of that slashdot comment overlooks that possibility. Then again, maybe
I'm just projecting, since I still don't know probably most of the
membership by sight.
>
>The second is that our demographic has a reputation for being somewhat
>socially challenged. While there are obvious exceptions to that, like
>Jerry and maddog for example, we didn't earn that reputation without
>some merit...
The author's point is I think more along the lines of what better way to
meet new people, when you're all gathered due to some known common
interest? And yet (perhaps), so little social interaction is initiated
at each meeting between people who don't already know eachother.
>
>In theory, it's a simple matter to walk up to someone you don't
recognize, and say "Hi, I'm [your name here], nice to meet you." I try
to make it a point to do that at least once at every meeting. I think I
have about 200 people to go...
>
>=8^)
>
>
>--
>Derek Martin
>Senior System Administrator
>Mission Critical Linux
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