[wplug-plan] installfest tutorials

Michael P. O'Connor mpop at cs.cmu.edu
Sat Jan 12 13:16:25 EST 2002


I half agree with you, if we do keep the presentations to in the
installfests down to a reasonable time it might not be that bad of a
problem. beside I am enjoying the stuff.

On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 12:59, Robert Dale wrote:
> 
> Here I sit at the installfest..  There are two presentations going on -
> one in the auxillary room and one in the main room.  The auxillary room
> seems to be working out well.  And beforehand, it seemed like a good idea
> to have one in the main room.  However, I don't think it's working out.
> Everyone in the main room has been made silent as to give voice to the
> speaker.  This seems to miss the main point behind an installfest - live,
> real-time, human-to-human communication.
> 
> I think these activities should be limited to GUMs and auxillary rooms.
> Otherwise, this installfest has been turned into a GUM, but one where we
> can sit in silence with our computers.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Dale
> 
> wplug member since 1998
> 
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