Re: Meeting Agendas and Organization

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

> "Burke, Jason" wrote:
> ...
> > 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).
> 
> Were we gonna do an install fest (where there'd be a high concentration of
> beginners) sometime soon?  Seems to me that we might wanna put any big
> concentrations of newbie help in a big chunk that's obviously
> newbie-oriented.  Although, "explore your the simple command of the week in
> depth" somewhere in each meeting might be kinda cool.  Take a command (like
> grep) and talk about it in-depth, going over all the obtuse options it has,
> etc. - maybe with some demo runs if we have a computer and screen...  Then
> newbies get exposed to useful basic commands, and usually most everyone
> else sees yet another command they had but didn't know all about. :)  It's
> not an issue of remembering how to call them, but knowing the capability's
> there...

That reminds me of the impromptu vi lesson a few months back. I learned
things that I wish I could remember. Yup, everyday commands are always
good.

eks

> 
> --Danny, who constantly learns new things on his systems
> 
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