I personally would be interested in a sysadm type of meeting! I get some
out of the other topics, but usually find most of the east side meetings
(the only ones I have attended) to be of little interest to me. Although
I liked the Blender presentations!
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:12 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> 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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