Am 07. Sep, 2006 schwätzte Darrin Chandler so:

> I wonder how many people would show if there were a System
> Administrators meeting?

2. Me and some homeless guy who got lost and can't figure out how to
escape.

I used to do sysadm topics and got lots of complaints that no one cared
about them, so I stopped giving them.

> While I think there's a place for apps like GIMP, Blender and such, and
> probably a wide audience, you'll probably never see me at one of those
> meetings.

Well, we can find a way to make it interesting for you. "Using Inkscape to
control your firewall"  :)

> You can have geographically-based meetings and try to draw the biggest
> numbers (and turn off people with no interest) or have SIG-type
> meetings. As you may guess, I would prefer SIG meetings. They would have
> their own set of problems, of course. But I think SIGs would be a good
> thing, and perhaps instead of 20 new users groups sprouting up we could
> have a few SIGs (SA, Web dev, Noobs/Apps).

The magazine format Brian suggested and that we're trying to follow at the
east side meetings is an attempt to do both.

We're trying to generally have 3 topics. One for newbie/desktop stuff. One
for somewhat advance, hopefully building on a previous newbie/desktop
topic. And finally, one that's advanced or special interest.

We could have one of the 3 topics eat the time for one of the others or
even occasionally have one topic take up the whole night.

I expect the mars presentation we haven't yet announced to take the whole
night :).

ciao,

der.hans
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