[Novalug] Other newbie topics. Newbies and vets, please respond with your ideas.

[Jay Hart]

Before you slam me on the backend, remember I ran the hands-on meeting for a
year, and I stopped doing it for several reasons.

My question is:

Who is going to teach it?  For example, I can teach how to get email going, to
a point, then I need help. I can help teach how to setup Apache, to a point,
then I need help.

Bottom line, you need hardcore gurus (per topic) to do this, and based on my
attendance experience with the hands-on meeting, I had the same problem.

Jay

> On Wednesday 02 January 2008 12:32, greg pryzby wrote:
>> WHOA NELLY!
>>
>> This is growing and that is cool, good and all, but this is NOT
>> something that can be done in a 2 hours.
>>
>> There was a group (SIG) that did this before, Jay and Dan each organized
>> one. It is something that I think is a great idea (we use to do
>> installfests but stopped) but isn't really suitable for a meeting. This
>> is a hands on.
>>
>> Now, if someone is interested in organizing (space being the hardest and
>> I rather not try for Oracle since we are lucky to be getting the space
>> right now for free on weekends) I am willing to offer suggestions,
>> guidance, help, etc.
>
> How big a group would we have? If it's small, I'd be happy to host it here. If
> we're looking at something over about a dozen people, I can arrange space at
> The Heights School.
>
> Dan Arico
>
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