I agree. I attended a LUG meeting after a gap of almost 4 months, and somehow i felt I had missed nothing.
Either we need to have more fun / informal meeting session or we need hard core new leanring input / experiance regards saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "q u a s i" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting on 8th February. KReSIT - IIT Mumbai. > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Amish Munshi spake thusly: > > > My only problem is to get speakers to speak on something, > > today there is no one to speak on any technical topic and the number > > of people interested in coming for the meet is decreasing. > > Let us look at reasons why someone would want to attend such a meet. > > #1 Meet other GNU/Linux users > #2 Learn something new > #3 Have fun > #4 #1 > #5 #2 > #6 #3 > ... > > > Of which we have a minor success at #1. #2 and #3 remain > unfulfilled. In the last few meet I have been to there have been a > high percentage of newbies. But they dont turn up for the next meet. > Shows that they do not get what they expected form the meet. Other > like me go to meet folks I know. Spending half a day to meet some > folks for a few minutes is expensive. > > Why dont we have more informal meets with a lot more FUN in them? > Order some food. Eat. Drink. Discuss stuff. People will come only > if they can enjoy the experience. For me, I did NOT enjoy the last > few meets which were extremely drab will all of us sitting done in > some classroom trying not to nodd off. Instead of having seminars and > talks we should aim at "informal discussions". Get rid of the > protocol and the politics. If we collect some small amount for the > food and drink I guess we could separate a small percentage of it for > other LUG activities and expenses. > > Bottomline is, GLUG meets are boring. And we need to seriously look > at this issue. > > just my two paise worth. > > -- > quasi > > Utopia Unlimited! > > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
