TLUG meeting suggestions/comments

[David Kreuter]

Wow. I've been reading these posts with a curious eye. I have been 
chairman of the Canada VM Users Group for many years, and frequently 
make presentations at other mainframe user groups. No heckling of the 
mainframe, please!

We rarely, ok, never have had this type of heckling or discipline 
issues. Back in the day we typically drew close to 100 people.
No diatribes coming from me on the different computing cultures, 
mainframe vs. *nix vs windows, but it comes down
to maturity and common courtesy.  It's easy to draw a distinction 
between appropriate comments and legitimate questions during a 
presentation and just plain immaturity and one upmanship.  Shame on 
those who attempt to derail a speaker at
any group, let alone a volunteer group. Go somewhere else.

David Kreuter



Fraser Campbell wrote:

>On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:30, Madison Kelly wrote:
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>>   I don't know if "heckling" is the right word, but if not there was an
>>apparent need by some to interrupt in order to say something that really
>>wasn't within the scope of the topic being presented.
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>Heckling is a good word.  I haven't been to TLUG in a long time but I do have 
>vivid recollections of the peanut gallery. I recall a presentation by an RCMP 
>officer who was constantly getting cut off, most often the heckling got 
>loudest around the most relevant and interesting parts of the presentation, 
>the point often getting lost or forgotten.
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>If you make it to the newtlug meetings, you will find them significantly more 
>civil, productive and useful.
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>As for rescuing a presentation I'd think some polite attempts to quiet the 
>rowdies should work, if not STFU might get through to them.
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