[kwlug-disc] Meeting formats

Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Tue Aug 16 01:10:15 EDT 2016


Because watching videos during a meeting is boring? Why not just sit
at home in our collective underwear and watch videos on our own? Does
the post-discussion really add that much?

Having said that, if you or others would like to try this approach
then we can schedule whatever people offer.

- Paul 

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 06:30:12PM -0400, B.S. wrote:
> Perhaps it doesn't even need to be a 'presentation' - which can be a
> lot of work. Any reason it couldn't be a favourite YouTube link of
> 10 - 15 minutes, appending a 5 - 10 minute Q&A surrounding why the
> 'nominator' liked it / how they found it useful / how they applied
> it / show & tell of the .conf file they ended up with, or whatever?
> 
> A quick example I can think of is DNS. Any such presentation
> probably wants to start of with a quick overview of what it is / why
> it matters, and probably needs some spiffy diagrams to go with it.
> Which I'll guess is already present in some YouTube link somewhere.
> The tail end of which might include hosts files and static dhcp
> entries - the .conf of which could then be shown to demonstrate how
> one's home computing life got happier / simpler.
> 
> There's so much content out there, onerous to duplicate / why
> reinvent the wheel - could be leveraged?
> 





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