On 01/10/2011 06:13 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
People seem to like the lightning talks so I'd suggest adding another
10-15 minute session before the main talk oriented towards end-user
questions. Perhaps an anonymous dropbox for questions could be setup
with one volunteer a month pulling a question and spending the 10-15
minute session answering it. A little back and forth on this would
move it past the "wouldn't it just be easier to Google it?" threshold.
I like the above suggestion -- I think that will work.
I actually think all of this is solving a problem we don't have.
Being realistic, we're never really going to get people with only a
casual background through the door. I'd much rather focus on our
strengths of developing a richer, deeper knowledge base among our
members and exposing people that show up most months to interesting
topics and projects people are doing. It's part of what makes us one of
the more vibrant technical groups in the area, and the reason I never
want to miss a meeting personally.
Ubuntu and Google have pretty much taken over the bootstrapping phase of
people learning Linux, and I'm ok with that.
-Sean
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