[kwlug-disc] Upcoming meeting scheduling

[Paul Nijjar]

Okay. I have left out the ad-hoc meetings, but scheduled July, August,
and October. If the presenters would prefer to be shifted, then let me
know. 

For June we could try a half meeting of ad-hoc discussion and/or
lightning presentations. Are there any questions or topics that people
would like to have covered?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:48:29PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Paul asked: 
> >Having a roundtable open discussion (which incidentally will be impossible to capture on the podcast)?
> 
> Could we push some of the square tables together (in a roundish fashion) and have several microphones in the centre? Wouldn't need amplified speakers, so no feedback.
> 
> > Asking questions during the meeting and getting people to get up and explain answers on the spot? (This could be fun and scary. )
> 
> That's what GTALUG does. There is lots of expertise in KWLUG, and lots of opinion to fill the gaps in expertise. Definitely fun, but if it's too scary maybe we can trial this with a half session.
> 
> --Bob.
> 
> On April 14, 2015 7:19:45 AM AST, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> >Obviously I am fuzzy-headed, because I am kind of lost as to future
> >meeting scheduling. Here is what I understand so far: 
> >
> >May: Marc on LibreOffice, Jotham on systemd timers
> >June: John on Raspberry Pi 2, one more TBA
> >July: Chris on btrfs part 2: backups and snapshots
> >Aug: Andrew on git 
> >Sept: ad-hoc meeting (?)
> >Oct: Raul on syncing files
> >
> >Does this sound acceptable? I know I have juggled a few presentations
> >out of their usual order: July was going to be the ad-hoc meeting and
> >September was going to be Raul's, but Chris has to present before the
> >snow flies and it seems reasonable for him to follow up his (rather
> >awesome) presentation on btrfs while the topic is still relatively
> >fresh in our heads. 
> >
> >I don't think we have a half slot presentation for June, but I could
> >be delusional. 
> >
> >Andrew was also going to encourage somebody he knows to present a cool
> >new PHP framework. Jotham had a second possible presentation on
> >managing his home directory, but I do not know if he wants to schedule
> >that yet.
> >
> >This ad-hoc meeting is quite fuzzy in my brain. Are we: 
> >
> >- Having a roundtable open discussion (which incidentally will be
> >  impossible to capture on the podcast)?
> >- Asking questions on the mailing list and choosing people to give 10
> >  minute answers?
> >- Asking questions during the meeting and getting people to get up and
> >  explain answers on the spot? (This could be fun and scary.) 
> >- Something else?
> >
> >It is fine to do whatever the group has enthusiasm for, but it would
> >be good to figure out what that thing is so we can prepare.
> >
> >- Paul 
> >
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