[wplug-erie] Welcome all!

Teodorski, Chris cteodorski at mahoningcountyoh.gov
Fri Oct 8 12:10:18 EDT 2004


Just my 2 cents -- inline. 

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> Subject: [wplug-erie] Welcome all!
> 
> 
> Wow - i exected one or two responses, I'm really glad to see 
> this many people still interested! Looks like I will have to 
> move things forward a little faster than I had originally 
> planned (I thought I might need to take some time to recruit people).
> 
> A couple of questions for the group. I have heard that some 
> of these are controversial, but we will try to work things 
> out the best we can.
> 
> 1. Would anyone object to moving the mode of communication 
> from this current mailing list to an online forum format? I 
> know that there are quite a few forum apps available that 
> could be fully configurable.
> Personally, I think mailing lists are great for announcements 
> and one-way communication, but gets to be a pain when there 
> are a lot of responses. The mailing list would still exist 
> for anouncements, but regular communication could be done 
> through a web-based forum.

I think this is a cool idea, I'm an IRC junky so I also like the idea of
an IRC channel.  

 
> 2. Would people still consider attending a LUG meeting with 
> no formal presentation? I think that the best thing for our 
> first meeting would be to just get together, introduce 
> ourselves and have a discussion about the LUG, where we would 
> like to see it go, Linux, and other general geeky things. 
> From here I can begin to plan more regular meetings with 
> presentations and the like, but I think an informal 
> get-together would be helpful.

This was exactly how we got things rolling in the beginning, a few
planning meetings are good idea.  It's a good way to develop a core.

 
> 3. And the question that I'm sure will raise some debate: 
> when/where should meetings be held? I can pretty much work 
> with anything, but would you prefer saturday, sunday, or an 
> evening during weekdays? If there is dissagreement on this, 
> we can try to work out a way rotate the meeting days/times to 
> try to accomidate the most people. As for location, we have 
> heard Mercyhurst, the Library and a bar. The library is more 
> of a central location (and easy to find), Mercyhurst has a 
> good link of technology, and a bar has the happy juice. If 
> there is no overwhelming opinion on this, I will assume to go 
> for the library for now.

This will be a debate, in the past the debate was mostly about days of
the week to meet.  Facilities provided by Mercyhurst for the installfest
were excellent.  I dig the bar idea with one exception, under-age
people.  I for one hated when I couldn't participate in something
because it wasn't "all ages" and bars might get cagey about the presence
of youngins'. Having said that, to date, I don't believe many youngins'
have participated.

 
> Thank you all for your support - please bare with me as I 
> sort out my schedule to make some extra time for this. Keep 
> spreading the news, ErieLUG is on its way back :)
> 
> -Brint
> 
> Brint E. Kriebel
> http://bekit.net




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