RE: Meeting Agendas and Organization

["Burke, Jason" <JBurke@lrs.com>]

The reasoning behind the cards is to allow people to share their
ideas, desired topics, etc without feeling out of place speaking 
up at the meeting. It seems that we have a lot of quiet people in
our group, and it is very difficult to get good feedback when no
one is willing to share their views outloud. Without some type
of response from the group nothing will change or improve, and
it's my opinion that if LUCI is going to grow we need to address
these issues. 

Also, we need to consider the needs of the new members that
are joining us. One thing that I think gets overlooked often is 
that these new users are not necessarily system administrators,
and our group has had a heavy system administrator slant to
it. So for us to be able to help out these new members it is 
imperative that we think outside the admin box for a moment,
and revisit some of those old, dusty beginners topics (such as
system commands, using grep, FSS, etc).

Well, enough babbling out of me. Back to work =).

Jason

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> Sent:	Monday, October 25, 1999 6:31 PM
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> Subject:	Re: Meeting Agendas and Organization
> 
> 
> "Burke, Jason" wrote:
> ...things...
> 
> > As far as what people want to achieve, I can probably answer with
> > some certainty that they probably don't know, and I think it's up
> > to us (the more experienced Linux users) to help them discover
> > what this operating system can do for them.
> 
> Personally, this is how I learned about linux.  I installed it at home,
> and
> then started going to UIUC's LUG meetings.  Sure, a lot of the stuff was
> over my head.  I noticed that the more I played at home, and the more I
> went, the more I understood.  All the time I'd be doing something and
> realize "hey - so that's what they were talking about".  Then I'd have
> some
> background already, which made learning easier.  Of course, for that to
> happen to others, we kinda have to talk about stuff, right?
> 
> > Also, I think that
> > we need to come up with creative solutions for getting the
> > information that we need back from the membership without
> > putting them on the spot like we have so many times in the past.
> > Perhaps instead of asking people at the meetings to tell us
> > what they want or are interested in (which sometimes doesn't
> > seem to accomplish what we want) we should pass around 3x5
> > note cards and pencils and ask them to write down what they
> > want for topics.
> 
> I'm going to vote agains the cards and pencils thing.  But since I seem to
> go to the wrong building when I try to go to meetings, I guess that
> doesn't
> count for much. :)  It does seem kinda weird to me though.  Does it have
> to
> be a secret?  I don't know how to do it better though...
> 
> I'm personally kinda partial to the slashdot-like "vote for topics" page,
> possibly combined with a "faq-o-matic" kind of thing, or some other way to
> suggest topics and see if others are interested.  Not that it'd be easy to
> vote/suggest in meetings, but, oh, I don't know.  Maybe just take the
> titles from the how-to collections initially. :)
> 
> It might be cool to do some demographic-like studies fo the members, to
> tell how they use linux in their job or at home, how they'd like to use
> it,
> etc.  That way maybe it'd be easier to come up with topics the group would
> benefit from?
> 
> Eh, I'll stop rambling.
> --Danny
> 
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