[kwlug disc.] Re: Pre-meeting attendance

[Unsolicited at gto.net]

One of the problems I have is with getting there by 7:00 PM, let alone 6:00
PM.

It seems to me that at one time, particularly with the way the desks were
set up, a questioner and an authority would go over to a desk and deal with
whatever issue. Currently, I think this could happen at the café instead.

This made 'noobie' time, and no offence to anyone in that regard,
simultaneous with the presentations. Authority and questioner would miss the
presentation, but that would be by their choice.

I know this would prevent videos and presentations, but could not
experienced and non-experienced (one on one) 'meetings' happen
simultaneously? This way everyone can still attend (we're all together as a
group) and everyone can still get something out of it.

I suspect attendance is low between 6 & 7 because of the time, not because
of the lack of interest.


Is some sort of simultaneous meeting, where people wander back and forth,
viable?

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Kevin
Sent: December 9, 2006 6:57 PM
To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
Subject: Re: [kwlug disc.] Re: Pre-meeting attendance

Paul Nijjar wrote: 

	On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Richard Weait wrote:
	
	  

		On 12/8/06, Unsolicited at gto.net <unsolicited at gto.net>
<mailto: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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Hello everyone. I must say that I am sorry I had to leave early from
Monday's meeting as I was one of the ones that asked for that topic. I must
also say that the early time for the newbies is a good idea, and most of the
time it is a good place to ask the noobish style of question. I honestly
feel that most of the topics are way above my head so therefore I do not
attend most of them. This is just one persons oppinion and I hope you don't
hold it against me.
Thanx Kevin Norwood