changing things a little.

[Terrence Enger]

At 11:14 2004-03-05 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Seeing as I am up next (everyone come!!!) I'll throw my approval in. I 
> would love a more "group" part instead of just the lecture thing. Maybe 
> instead of doing a talk (in my case, on firewalls and iptables) instead 

Ah!  This sounds interesting.  Could the "Powers That Be"
post this information in
<http://tlug.ss.org/meetings/meeting.shtml>?  For those of
us who come from outside Toronto, it can take some planning
and effort to get to a meeting.

> we can sit arounf and have one person (me!! :) ) field questions on the 
> topic and others could jump in when the "host" gets stumped.

Actually, I rely on the person at the front of the room to
bring organization and coherence to the topic.  Admittedly,
I am newer to Linux than a lot of the audience, but I doubt
that I am unique.

For example, Henry Spencer in "A strategy to back-out a
system upgrade" presented some background about the
organization of the Linux directory hierarchy.  Quite a bit
of this was already familiar to me, and I would not have
thought to ask questions about it.  Nevertheless, over the
course of his presentation, he brought together concepts
that I had met in disjointed contexts over a period of
years.  My understanding is improved.  I am glad that I took
the time to attend.

So, I suggest that question-and-answer sessions should be
only a part of the meeting.

>
> I already have most of my talk done but instead of giving the talk I 
> could print it off and hand it out and people could reference that for 
> questions. Just an idea.

I do like the idea of handouts ... partly aging eyes, and
partly because I forget to take notes when the talk gets
really interesting.

If the Big Bucks we pay you for presenting do not stretch so
far as they used to--that's a safe bet if there ever was
one!--you could post the handout and let us absorb our own
printing costs.

Terry.

>
> Madison
>
> G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> > Guys,
> > 
> > I was thinking that we should encourage more participation at the lugs
than
> > just having people talk at us each meeting.
> > 
> > How about a panel of people answering questions before each meeting.  The
> > tougher the better.  Since all of us regulars seem to be a little paunchy,
> > I'm affectionately calling it _Stump the Lump_ :)
> > 
> > I'd be willing to contribute a prize or something.
> > 
> > Waddya think?


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