ESM

[Brian Cluff]

Just an end user?   End users usually give the better presentations on 
many things.   Some of us old hats tend to get stuck in our little 
grooves and completely miss the new and usually easier ways of doing things.

An example of this that usually pops into mind occurred about 13 years 
ago when the east side meetings were being held at the boys and girls 
club in Scottsdale.

Anyway, someone new to Linux was asking a question about how they could 
get connected to the Internet through their modem on KDE.  There was a 
few of us gathered around giving each other tips on how to create a chat 
script with all the necessary stuff to get them connected, and really 
confusing the poor guy that just wanted to get connected to the Internet.

After a few minutes, another newbie walked up behind us and asked us 
what was going on... we told him, and he said, "Why don't you just run 
kppp".  None of us has ever heard of it, so we fired it up, filled in 
the name, password and phone number and clicked connect.  It connected 
perfectly the first time.

In the end, the "end user" was the one that knew the proper way to do 
things.  We are also all end users with varying skill sets, and I can 
promise you that there is something that you do that you think is common 
knowledge that a bunch of other people don't know how to do.  Not every 
presentation needs to be on some advanced subject.

Hans also likes to point out, that he likes to pick a subject that he is 
interested in from time to time and force himself to learn it in order 
to give a presentation in it, and it in doing so, he has gained more 
knowledge about things than if he had just stuck with things he knew about.

I know this has been VERY true for me.  In trying to find subjects for 
my mini presentations on graphic apps, I've had to learn all sorts of 
new stuff in order to fill a presentation every month.

Brian Cluff

On 06/11/2012 05:53 PM, Eric Allen wrote:
> Me?,,, I trip over my tongue and I'm just an end user is all.
> .
> Eric
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> From: Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com>
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:48:04 -0700
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>     Anyone know what this weeks topic will be at ESM?
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