[aclug-L] Re: [announce] Next meeting.

[jvanbeber <jvanbeber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

well...I certainly have no room to brag. I'm a newbie supreme, bring on 
the linux and all that goes with it!!!
                       James

Anne McCadden wrote:

>Very good idea!  I am interested in MySQL and Python.  I would like to
>find other people who are also interested in this also.  Learning about
>the files, permissions, etc with go along with the working on a
>project.  The hardest part is getting started and how to get out of a
>jam.  It helps to have someone to talk to -- to help get me or others
>out of a jam -- not just to brag about what we are doing.
>
>Bruce Alderman wrote:
>
>>I want to echo some comments David Wiebe made about ACLUG meetings. I
>>have attended two meetings, but I doubt anyone in the club would even
>>recognize me if I showed up again.  No one spoke to me from the time I
>>entered the door until I left.
>>
>>The meetings were loosely organized, which can be great for groups of
>>friends, but can be off-putting for new people.
>>
>>As it happens, I've just been reading Steven Levy's _Hackers_.  Levy
>>describes (among other things) the Homebrew Computer Club, which began
>>in the late 1970s in Silicon Valley, and whose members helped launch the
>>home computer revolution.  One of the things that made the Homebrew
>>Computer Club successful was the structure of its meetings.  Each
>>meeting would begin with a "mapping" section, in which the attendees
>>would describe the projects they were working on.  At the end there
>>would be a "random access" section, to allow members to talk to others
>>who were working on similar projects.  These were wrapped around a short
>>talk or a demonstration of a new project.
>>
>>Maybe this could be adapted into something that might work for ACLUG
>>meetings.
>>
>>--
>>Bruce Alderman                                baa@xxxxxxxxxx
>>                 http://www.intcon.net/~baa
>>"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
>>                                       - Philo of Alexandria
>>
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