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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> I just wanted to remind all about this upcoming
meeting of the ErieLUG this Sunday February 22. The ErieLUG mailing list has
been pretty quiet and I thought maybe this was needed. Also I would also like
to take the time to discuss some possible agenda ideas for this meeting. After
having spoken to a few of the people outside of the message board it seems to
me that some ideas have come across that are very good. First and foremost,
this should be the last general planning meeting. Possibly even only devoting
the first ˝ hour to hour of time to this. If your not interested in planning,
don’t come to this part. Also, some ideas for the possible planning
meeting would be when and where to setup an installfest of our own, planning
dates for more general meetings, frequency of said meetings, and the like.
These things need to be discussed, and if you only want to be part of the
installfests, support group part, show up later. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I know some people are all ready to
jump in for help and want help, but I believe we should learn together. It
mostly seems most of us showing up are not hardcore Linux tech support people.
Most of us are still Windows users, and play with and are learning Linux as
well. So I suggest that if we want help or need help, we try to focus on 2-3
problems for regular meeting for joint support, and that the decision for those
topics should be done on the message boards. Out of the meetings it seems Tom
is the longest general user of Linux, but he freely admits that where he ends
up. (Get it END USER). Anywho, I would like to see a more group learning
effort, not an established hierarchy of fixor’s and fixee’s. For
some suggested topics, how about learning to use message groups for getting
more info and support for Linux, Windows migration and similarities between the
two for us newbie’s, or even some general basic command that we keep
forgetting to use, (I personally like this one). I have no problem learning
with a group, as a group. The idea I guess is, we come up with a topic towards
the end of meeting or on the mailing list, everyone of us makes a good faith
effort to learn about said topic, and someone who feels comfortable, talks
about the topic and we answer questions as a group. Seems complicated I know,
and I realize not all are comfortable with speaking, but a group is only as
good as what is put into it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Finally, we are a new, we obviously
will have a lot to kinks to work out, but I for one would like to make this a
lasting effort. I’ve heard of 3 other attempts to start other ErieLUGs
and I would like to make ours last. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Just Bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.justbill.org/">www.justbill.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>p.s. For clarification of the Fixor and Fixee problem, keep
in mind some people are already tech support, and the last thing they want to
do is be free tech support on the weekends. We are all interested in learning,
but I for one wouldn’t want to always be the teacher. I don’t want
anybody to think I’m not willing to share knowledge, but if I came to
every meeting and all I was doing is fixing peoples computer, I would lose
interest very quickly, as most would. From what I’ve seen is that we are
all very intelligent, (which is why were at these meetings in the first place)
and we all can contribute some way or another. I know there will always be
people who only want to be on the receiving end, and that’s fine, but if
we are a group of receivers, we will give ourselves nothing to receive.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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