On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, servando barreiro wrote:
Pd Berlin also had packed days in the beguinning. some people at Nk
were surprised somehow to see the amount of people in the early meetings
in comparison with the supercollider meet.
Did you have beginners expect to hear presentations made for beginners,
and lurkers expect to hear presentations made for lurkers ?
with "surprise" guests and also improvised "last-patch showcase".. I
have to apologize for non documenting and archiving the pdBln meets as
they deserve.. but well.. It´s never too late (and I still have some
vids and pics from former meetings..).
I usually forget to take pics... There's also some footage but we didn't
use it.
As I see in your arquive from pdmtl, seems to be quite more serious and
organized than pdBln but of course, we are different countries, cultures
and approaches but both of them valid.. B-)
I don't think that it's a cultural thing, I think it depends on the people
involved. I only put together the announcements of (almost all) the first
32 meetings and I always made sure I had an announcement for each meeting
because if I don't, many more people get lazy. That's very rare for
something called a Users Group. The computer users groups I know in my
city (I don't know many of them) tend to involve two, one or zero
presentations, and may sometimes focus more on the beer than anything
else. I could've done it like that, but decided to have the most content I
could gather each time. I didn't try to imitate other users groups, other
than using the words "users group"...
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