changing things a little-Recording meetings

[Teddy Mills]

Anyone have a wireless microphone?
Can the TLUG meetings be recorded?
(thus played online 24x7 via mp3s, at leisure)

/teddy




----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrence Enger" <tenger-ew0EfhANLmVEfu+5ix1nRw at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: changing things a little.


> 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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