Sumeet, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sumeet Madhukar Moghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ILUG CAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Linux in Academia
> The venue was good in as much as it provided us with almost everything > we needed. It was bad however, since it provided us with a lot of > uninformed crowd which isnt something we look to handle in meets. <snipped> > So, for the meet in April, we scrap out the LCD projector and hi-fi > mikes stuff. Let us have limited tech content. Just one focus talk and a > small demo or something, preceding/interspersed with our main meeting > agenda. As was probably decided, 2nd Saturday shall remain the day for > the meet come rain, hail or shine. So the hunt begins for a small venue HIT is an excellent venue in all aspect except one (no loo in the building ;-). You have done a perfectly *good* job of venue-hunting. Was the LCD projector and the FM microphones provided on any pre-condition to the LUG bottle-feeding the 2nd year HIT CS students on Linux? If not then why do we need to do without them? As I'm not aware otherwise, I assume there was none. So, I really fail to understand why we must leave a perfectly good venue... can you shine some light? IMO, all you really need is to make it clear beyond any confusion/assumption/presumption to whoever you are communicating with at HIT that the LUG is certainly looking at HIT to play host, however, it doesn't encourage typical classroom environment nor forced presence of students who want to note down that RTFM = Read The Fine Manual ;-) except during properly organised seminars, which should not number more than 1 per year (barring any special occassions). Simply make it clear with HIT authorities that if our future meetings are to held at HIT, only the really interested students from HIT will be encouraged to attend our meeting. Not as an aggregated sea of ignorance with claims like "dd is v difficult to use!" or talk among each other saying "Ki re! PHP ki shikbi? HTML janish? oth.. oth!" while Anirban was speaking. Admittedly, everyone were not of that standard. But the clear impression was that less than 25% of HIT students were actually anywhere close to serious abt the seminar. For the rest it was mere time-pass or something less. In some ways the seminar on Saturday reminded the old-timers about the meeting held at a certain high-profile institution about a year ago. IMO, having HIT as a venue isn't at all our problem, lack of effective communication/coordination is. Work on it, and let us all know wat transpires with HIT! All the best! --indra. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
