[TriLUG] just to clarify a few points about meetings ...

[Sinner from the Prairy]

A Divendres 11 Gener 2002 04:46 pm, vàreu escriure:
> On 11 Jan 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> > I think you hit the audience issue on the nail.  While I may be on
> > the job hunt, I've absolutely no interest in attending the types of
> > TriLug meetings you would like to have.  Let me state this crystal
> > clear.  Have those nice glossy brochure type meetings that you
> > could have your corporate execs to and I sure as heck won't be
> > interested in coming.  I can go to a corporate marketing seminar
> > anywhere these days.

> i never said i wanted to have meetings that came *from* corporate
> execs.  i was expressing my disappointment that trilug, in all the
> time i've been a member, has shown little interest in targeting
> even the occasional get-together *for* local execs.  that is,
> local corporate executives.  you know ... the kind of people who
> might be talked into actually adopting linux.  and giving people
> like you an interesting and well-paying job doing what you enjoy.


Hi there,

(I have deleted the unnecessary porition of the message. )

Anyway,

I like TriLug way of running a meeting. As Kevin said, he is a 
full-time father, full-time real-worker, full-time husband, full-time 
member of TriLug's SC... that's about +100 hours/day !!!

Give him a break!

Nobody is perfect. We, triluggers, are mostly geeks. And, for my part, 
like the non-corporate way of running the meetings. 

This one was different because it was the State of the LUG, right after 
Xmas, right after a big snow storm, right after I came back from Europe 
(so I was jet-lagged).

Regular meetings, when there's a talk, are not as open-debate as this 
last meeting. But, in the state of the LUG, I expected a lot of luggers 
talking. And it happened.

What's wrong with that?

I see your point. But not all pingüinistas (iso-8859-1) like to attend 
to corporate-linuxfests. Not all the time. And not on the Satte of the 
LUG meeting.

Belive me. When I gave the talk, it was different. More Mark and me 
talking, a quieter (can you say that?) audience and also interactive 
talk with triluggers with a deal of experience in the running theme. It 
was a good experience. Different than any corporate presentation or 
university speach that I have given. But the intended audience, the 
place and the atmosphere were just right. 

And at the network cable-installing that we TriLUG bees attended, the 
"ambience" was more like "Joe Sixpack with a truck, lumber-jack shirt, 
manly-man tools and warm comradery".

What John Matthews says about getting some corporate-type meeting 
sounds right to me. And this will please Triluggers like you, more of 
the corporate type.

When I say "corporate" I mean the kind of planned meeting, more 
traditional audience, more shaved faces, cleaner clothes... with no 
offense, hidden or whatsoever intended. Just a descriptive word. If it 
is not right, blame my poor English (my 3rd language).

I think that TriLUG is a good place. And there is room for everybody. 
Your ideas and John Mathews proposals sound very right to me. We can do 
it all. There's 12 meetings a year. There's room for everybody.


Salut and Peace for all,
Sinner
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