I admit I missed the meeting the other night only due to a "brain fart". I
am a new guy and would enjoy any topics on the nuts and bolts of loading the
system or especially packages (applications???). I will try to make the
future meetings despite the holiday busy-ness.
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Dave Ray
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From: "Barry Gershenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:04 PM
Subject: [nonspam] Re: Newbie SIG
> At last night's meeting there was a low turn-out and no speaker.
I believe "low turn-out" may be related to the "no speaker".
> it wouldn't fill the needs of those of us who've been
> around to go back to simple presentations.
What are those needs? Could they be taken care of by mailing lists?
I rarely get much out of any advanced presentation. It is either
over my head or I already know all about it.
> have the first or last hour devoted to Linux beginners topics.
I.M.O. whichever starts first will overrun the second. It's the
nature of conversation. If you want the newbies, then they get to
start first.
> We could start at 6
I can not be there before 7. YMMV.
I would be more likely to attend beginner sessions. This may be a
personal preference thing, especially as I like teaching as much as
learning. As I hinted above, I consider exploring the basics (the
underpinnings) more worthwhile than learning too much about this or that
new package. Rather than an in depth presentation, I think an
appropriate overview is consumable by newbies anyway.
As an example, I did learn about MythTV from the presentations, but I
really never knew anything about it until I tried it myself.
Barry
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