[nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of NFLUG and its Future

[Daniel Magnuszewski]

I see my goals similar to Brian's. I would be more likely to attend a meeting if the topic was related to enterprise topics as opposed to, for example, setting up Ubuntu (which I could care less about). As the head of the Buffalo Perl Mongers, I do understand and appreciate having topics of all skill levels and understand the difficulty of having talks for a group of people with varying skill sets. One thing we did for a while with our Perl Monger meetings was to have both a beginner and an advanced topic at each meeting, which seemed to work pretty well.

I am a big fan of changing the name to WNYLUG (was never fond of NFLUG) and consolidating the mailing lists, websites, etc.


-Dan



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From: Brian Powell <bpowell01 at gmail.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:15:55 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] Meetings - A Brief History of NFLUG and its Future

Let me take a moment to thank Mark for his compliments and enthusiasm
as well as suggesting the individual groups merge.

I would like to clarify my goals and hopefully the group as a whole.

As mentioned above by a few different people the idea of an
"Enterprise" group isn't to segregate individual members into 2
different classes or to create a type of "Elitest" club image. It is
only to create a sub-meeting (which ideally would meet on a seperate
week and day) where the focus is on Linux and "Enterprise" usage.

The whole intent of creating this secondary meeting would be to cater
the topics for more advanced Linux usage (IE Clustering, Puppet,
SELinux, etc). This by no means is saying that any and everyone can
not attend if the topic is of interest to them, it is only saying that
the presentations / topics is going to assume the attendees are
"comfortable" with Linux and may skip over basic things that are
assumed an attendee should already know.

The whole idea is to have a LUG that covers all user levels from new
users to advanced. By creating a secondary meeting that possibly meets
on a different day, this would allow members to choose which meeting
to attend based on the presentation topics, and if they wish, can
attend both. It would still be WNYLUG regardless,  just meeting
possibly twice a month  instead of once with different targeted
topics.

Of course this is simply my thoughts. The group as a whole, ultimately
will discuss and vote on how to approach this topic and what is best.
This will be added as a meeting agenda item to be discussed at the
January 14th 2009 meeting.
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