Re: [aclug-L] Meeting dates, topics, suggestions

["Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, John Goerzen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A number of people have made suggestions recently regarding ACLUG meetings. 
> I'd like to share these suggestions here, and see what people think of them. 
> If there is support, we'll go forth and see about implementing at least
> some.
> 
> First, I mentioned in the note to -announce the other day a possiblity of
> some sort of trivia contest.  If anyone has a suggestion about the format of
> this, please let me know, because I don't have any good ideas yet :-)
> Ideally, the audience would supply questions, and the people that answer the
> most questions and the ones that ask the most questions that stump the
> answerers would get some sort of prize.

I went to a party that had a linux "trivia" contest. THe contest was to
fix the hosts computer so ppp would work, if I hadn't got my finally 
kernel to compile (and boot), I would have suggested that for the contest :)

> 
> Secondly, Jeff Schaller mentioned that other Linux groups sometimes have a
> potluck-style meeting.  I think we could use this idea when the weather is a
> bit warmer.  For those of you that remember, there was once a regular
> Wichita-area BBS get-together in the Sedgwick County Park (right next to the
> zoo).  I think it might be a great idea to have one of those every month or
> two for Wichita-area Linux enthusiasts.  No presentation, but maybe some
> barbecue?  Suggestions welcome about this.

Can geeks cook?

> Another concern that some have mentioned regards our meeting time.  (I
> should point out that whatever is decided about this, our next meeting will
> remain on Monday, the 25th.)  Apparently, the WSU CS Dept. has scheduled an
> Advanced Unix class that conflicts with our meeting time, so a  number of
> people that would like to attend our meetings won't be able to do so.  If
> there is to be any change in meeting date, it will need to be agreed to by
> people outside WSU.  So I'd like comments about possibly moving the meeting
> to Tuesday -- whether or not people would be in favor of it, etc.  I am
> nervous about moving meeting days based on one class, but if enough people
> are sucked out of our meetings because of it, maybe a change is warranted.

Tuesday works for me. 

Speaking of meetings, you mentioned an install, after debian 2.1 comes
out, do you have an idea when that might be?



> 
> Thanks,
> John Goerzen
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