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On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 19:03, Neil Williams wrote: <snip>
Past Events Linux Install Day - 29th April 2001 at Exeter Uni Open Source Day - 27th April 2002 at Exeter Uni St. Peter's School - 27th March 2003 Paignton Rugby/Cricket club 17th July 2003 Plymouth University 12th August 2003 St. Peter's School - 19th Feb 2004 August Meeting - 28th August 2004
<snip> This is all true, and I have to admit attending 5 of the above myself, however one observation I would like to make is that I have noticed a tendency / trend towards limited time span between conception and implementation of meetings (some times weeks (as in 2) mostly days. For example last Saturdays meeting was initially proposed by Simon on 21st (correct me if I am wrong but that is the earliest reference I could find) and implemented on the 28th that is to say a whole 7 days for people to get there acts together. This tendency may of course be manifest in the latter meetings, certainly I think the 27th April 2002 Exeter Uni event was the first that I attended and at that point I joined the group. But IIRC this event had been in planning for some time (and as the event is still impressed on my memory) Simon, Dr Midgley, A mad greek fellow and several others gave some excellent demonstrations / talks). It convinced me that I was in safe hands ! Now Saturdays meeting was not intended as a install event, and would have turned a general public (ie currently non member) audience off completely. Well ok this is debatable, but it certainly wasn't intended as that sort of event. My point however, is that I feel its time that we planned and co-ordinated something with the public (non-member) in mind, or given the vast area (in land mass) that DCGLUG covers compared with other GLUG's perhaps a roadshow taking in major venues in Devon and Cornwall. A set of dates, times and places advertised locally by local members (well in advance), but supported by the group as a whole were ever possible each contributing from his / her own unique abilities . And secondly perhaps its time to have an area on DCGLUG that caters for "newbies" (ecck I hate that term), so that those members that don't mind answering seemingly daft questions can do so, but not disturb or enrage the passions of those that don't and thus, (more importantly IMHO) not put off those that are GNU/Linux knowledge challenged from asking questions. As the existing mail group can be un-subscribed as well as subscribed I should think this would not be too hard to arrange .... Any comments Neil / Anyone ? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.