[aclug-L] Re: Change of Location and Change of Direction

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:09 -0600, Tom Hull wrote:
> Dale W Hodge wrote:
> > (Also posted on Aclug.org website)
> > 
> > At last night's (March) meeting we discussed whether Aclug should remain
> > as a presentation group with occasional social events or whether to
> > become a social club with occational presentations. While discussing
> > this, we had an interesting tentative offer from Eric Dexter of the
> > Wichita Eagle - that of a new meeting location.
> > 
> > Assuming approval from The Eagle's management, we could use their
> > conference room which has network connections and a LCD projector. This
> > would hopefully solve one of our problems with our presentations, that
> > of not being able to see the material. It won't solve the problem of
> > lack of good topics.
> > 
> > Personally, I think we should become a social group with presentations.
> > That way we could always plan on there being a meeting where we could
> > discuss whatever problems people might be having. Presentations could be
> > shorter and more diverse, since they wouldn't be the driving point of
> > the meeting.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> This sounds good to me. Actually, I recall complaining both about the
> unsuitability of the WSU rooms for presentations and the desirability
> of a LCD projector; also for ganging up short presentations, and for
> preparing them ahead of time in a format that we can reuse. I think
> that the appropriate technology and space will make it more rewarding
> to put some time into presentations.
> 
> BTW, what are the Linux alternatives to Powerpoint?
> 
Just a quick,  OO has Impress,  don't know what else



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