Never got a letter.
I don't get the meeting much due to my work schedule and my wife's
health.
So I use the email list to engage with other local users.
I answer questions because that is what I do for a living. An by doing
so I learn something in the process.
I have started user groups for other hobbies on both a local as well
as national level and have always found you get what you put into it.
A beginner needs to be able to ask questions. An not feel afraid to
ask thinking it might make them feel inferior in someway.
Sometimes I can find the right answer sometime someone else on the
list finds answer.
Sometimes no one has the answer. But we do try to find out what is
going on.
On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
Folks, am i the only person that thinks that the Louisville Computer
Society and the Macuser group go hand in hand and that we are one
happy family? I do know that you don't get the ACCESS if you don't
pay your fee, but then I thought we could all be part of the larger
group, paying or not, and even were invited to the meetings should
we choose to show up. So when Tom recently forwarded this letter of
some folks feeling alienated and with their smallish skills felt
out of place, I marvelled and did respond with a long answer that i
did not feel at all that way, that I had all my questions answered,
if they were at all answerable, that I always was able to have
Lee's techno language translated into bread and butter English and
sent it off. Only when I noticed that nobody, not even the ever
appreciative and thankful "Profile" ( I love to call you that -
there are so many Johns) came out to say a helpful word.
I then realized the mail had apparently not gone to the whole group
at all, and my good advice was probably lost on those who might not
even know of this email extension group or whatever it is.
And now I am wondering whether these people even know of us
emailers, and it bothers me. However do people then get to know Lee
and his immense machine to keep us all under control and keep it all
running? How will they take advantage of all the tidbits coming
from Ed Wiser? How will Nolan to be found out in his Sunday night
program of scratchy records? How will they find out about mini dvds,
a fact that was lost on me? And how will they know to what lengths
some of our guru types will go to help out?
When the Apple store opened and I wanted to put out flyers to
advertise our group, they thought i might desecrate their holy altar
up there, which of course left me speechless, since they could only
benefit from this set-up.
So- since we are at the start of a New Year, what can we do about
not leaving any novice behind ---- let us not get a Bush reputation
here --- Tell, me then, who did get Tom's letter?
And what do we do about it?
Marta
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The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will
be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane.
Posting address: [email protected]
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_______________________________________________
The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will
be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane.
Posting address: [email protected]
Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
