[TriLUG] trilug meetings

[al johson]

I agree with this message, and I have a suggestion to help fix it. How about
having everyone give their names at the beginning of every Trilug meeting
and especially make note of the newcomers?? In other words the old members
would give their names first and then the chair would ask for the new
visitors to introduce themselves. I belong to other organizations which do
this and short of giving everyone name tags it really helps to get to know
the names of the (new and old) members of the group.---Al Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Bryan <tbryan at python.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] trilug meetings


> On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:08 am, prhodes at vdsinc.com wrote:
>
> > > it.  Our average day is too full of order, politics, agendas, etc.
The
> > > evening is time to wind down and have some fun.
> >
> > +1
>
> Fun for whom?  *After* you learn some names and faces, it could be fun.
It
> might also be fun if you came with a few friends.  But, it's not really
fun
> for a loner who comes to a meeting for the first time.  (S)he knows a lot
of
> people from the list, but can't match faces to names.
>
> > Our meetings might not be perfect, but they aren't particularly bad
either.
> > I think we have a good mix of seriousness, silliness, geekiness, etc.
I'm
> > not in favor of making any sweeping changes, personally.  Yeah, maybe
> > we could be a little more serious at times...  but I don't think it's
> > anything to go real worked up over.
>
> I'm not concerned about seriousness.  I'm just concerned that the format
> doesn't provide much of a venue for a newcomer to break into that social
> circle.  It might be fun sitting around chatting with friends, but how
much
> fun is it to sit around *watching* people who *could* be your friends (but
> currently aren't) chatting?  The only way I can see for someone to
introduce
> himself to the current...clique...is to give a presentation.  (I mean
clique
> in terms of the set of LUGgers who know each other by face and name.)  The
> community might not be what rpjday would like to see, but whatever the
> community is, it doesn't seem to provide a simple means for people to
enter
> that community (except for seeing names on a mailing list).
>
> ----Tom
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