I really like Steven's suggestion here of having a formal presentation every couple of months, with more informal meetings in-between.
On that note, I'd like to propose a meeting for April 8th (the second Tuesday) at 7:00pm. Let's make this one an informal one, just to chat and share ideas. No presentation. Anyone who would like to give a presentation in May is more than welcome to come and let us know.
Provided a few folks are able to come, we'll decide then when/what/where the next meeting will be.
Where should we have it? Ideally, it will be somewhere our under-21 friends will be able to join us, yet those of us who are more ancient will be able to consume adult beverages if we please.
Isn't Yogi's like that, out on the "patio" (the front room)? Irish Lion is too, as long as we sit upstairs (I hate to sit upstairs).
What do you folks think? We've got plenty of time to decide. After a few folks have chimed in and we've made a decision, I'll post a more formal announcement to the list.
Cooley
Dave Cooley dcooley@kiva.net
Steven Black wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:26:30AM -0400, Dave Cooley wrote:I think I can (at least partially) take on that responsibility. Mark, is SUSO still available for the meetings? I think folks liked meeting there better than at the Library. I'm also into the more informal, social meetings, rather than spending the whole time on a presentation, unless there's something "big" to be presented. What do you folks think?Personally, I like both the informal meetings as well as the presentations. If we did presentations every other month, and informal meetings between, it may both provide a balance between the two as well as provide the people doing the presentations time to work on them between their day jobs. The presentations have the ability to demonstrate exciting new apps, however in the past, they've also been a reason that meetings have been canceled. Some piece of equipment required for the meeting was unavailable, and it just couldn't go on. (This was a major reason I presented my presentation "old-school" -- without any technology-based assistance.) I think the presentations have the capability of providing an excuse for people to explore topics they're interested in, but have not gotten around to investigating. However, I don't think they should be considered disposable. If research has gone in to them, then the research should be preserved and made available to the Linux community at large. By this, I mean we should at least post the complete presentation on the website, and at best the research should be compiled in to a paper and posted to a community site. I also think we should consider team-based presentations. While something may be overwhelming for a single person to investigate and report on in 30-60 days, it may be much easier with a partner. Something like Google Docs may facilitate this sort of thing. Cheers, Steven Black _______________________________________________ BLUG mailing list BLUG@linuxfan.com http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug
