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

[Michael Moore <mrmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>>
Yes, just a couple of weeks ago there was a show on cable.....I don't 
remember which channel....but, it had Woz, Capitian Krunch and (oh heck, 
I forgot his name.....Menitz?...you know, he spent the last 4 years in 
jail waiting waiting for his trial).  Anyway, they talked about the 
Krunch whistle, the black box or did they call it the blue box (phone 
box) and the Homebrew Computer Club.  Anyway, Woz said that when someone 
brought their computer to the meeting everybody would run down front to 
see it and ask all kinds of questions to find out as much as possible 
about it.  He said they went from a small room to finally using large 
autoriums.  Also, he stated that from the members of that one club....23 
different computer companies sprang up.

>>
>>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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