[kwlug disc.] Re: Pre-meeting attendance

[Paul Nijjar]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Richard Weait wrote:

> On 12/8/06, Unsolicited at gto.net <unsolicited at gto.net> wrote:
> > > 6:30pm in an attempt to revitalize "newbie time"?
>
> Revitalize?  Is it broken?  The pre-meeting feels like ad-hoc
> conversation and small group discussion to me.

	I am not sure whether it is broken or not for certain. I do know
that the original intention of opening between 6pm-7pm was to support new
users. For a while people toyed with the idea of having
"mini-presentations" geared to new users. Unfortunately, nobody committed
to giving these presentations. Then we were going to have open Q&A for new
users, but nobody asked questions. Then we started showing training
movies, but we seem to have stopped that (and I don't know whether they
were popular anyways). Now we just have a chat time, I think.

	This is another thing I don't have a strong opinion about,
although I do strongly want to make newbies (to the LUG and Linux) feel
welcome.

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Paul Nijjar
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