[kwlug-disc] Meeting formats

[Bob Jonkman]

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I think B.S. has volunteered to make one of the short presentations
with a YouTube video as his A/V material.

Let's see how it works out!

- --Bob.


On 2016-08-16 09:16 AM, B.S. wrote:
> Paul, I think you have missed the point.
> 
> If what you suggest were true, there would be no interest in K-W
> LUG presentations at all. Nor would there be so much duplicated
> content for the same subject out there, vs the suggested 'I found
> this one really useful.' And everyone would have come away from
> every topic with a complete understanding of that topic and have
> completely implemented every detail of that topic. And K-W LUG
> wouldn't exist. Yet it does.
> 
> Every question and barrier to implementation would be answered, by
> your statement. Everyone will already have watched every bit of
> material, as everything matters, and we all have infinite time.
> None of which, I suspect, is completely correct or K-W LUG wouldn't
> exist. Yet it does.
> 
> You wouldn't be regularly begging for presentations. And this
> thread about meeting formats wouldn't exist. Yet it does.
> 
> Please re-affix your impassive, neutral, moderator, whatever the
> group wants, hat. Rather than killing an idea, when ideas have been
> asked for as they have run out, out of the gate. If the thought has
> merit, the group will respond - if it doesn't, it won't. But that
> is theirs to say.
> 
> No reason to kibosh freely available material in favour of forcing 
> everyone to reinvent the wheel every time. Material preparation is
> hard and onerous, and not everyone's cup of tea. Especially as 
> non-presentation-professional, extra-curricular, volunteers. Or
> this thread wouldn't exist, yet it does.
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/16/2016 01:10 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> 
>> 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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