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Re: Meeting Organization (was Re: [Plug] FAQ)
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Hi,
I am a Temple Grad student and just joined this list. Since I would like
the meetings to be useful to eveybody, including myself, am willing to
contribute my 2 bit. Willing to co-ordinate speakers or other legwork as
required.
bye.
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. There have some ``bad'' meetings that went
> the way that you describe.
>
> PLUG needs meeting topics. We have done too much Q&A. At the last
> meeting we (finally) had several people offer to prepare topics for
> future meetings. Thank you one and all! I hope that everyone else is
> considering what topics they would like to present.
>
> LeRoy and I have been too busy to do all of the organizing needed to
> make PLUG the success that it should be. But we are willing (anxious
> even) to work with volunteers. Does anyone feel that they can organize
> the meeting speakers and topics? Do the legwork to confirm the speaker
> ... and get that information to LeRoy so that he can update the web
> page and make the announcements in a timely fashion (it is hard to make
> an announcement when you don't know if the speaker is going to show)?
> Vale, I was thinking about asking you if this task would interest you.
> You have so much energy and are such a strong supporter of PLUG!
>
> Also, it would be great if someone could take notes and prepare and
> publish minutes to the meetings. Any volunteers?
>
> Also, it would be good if those people who are prone to start and
> participate in the ``cocktail party jabbering'' would be more
> considerate to people like Tom who come for a group experience. When
> we have Q&A, I consciously try to make several passes of the room to
> make sure that everyone has a say. There is no need to start private
> conversations during the meeting, just raise your hand! Please save
> the private conversations for after the meeting. Tom is not the first
> person who has complained about this problem. Happily, I can report
> that the last several meetings have gone very well in this regard.
>
> Thanks, Tom for helping to bring these issues to our attention.
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 05:38:37PM -0400, Thomas E. Keiser wrote:
> > Jason:
> > I intended to send the message to Laktar off-line, and Netscape was addressed
> > that way. After clicking send, it decided that since this was a reply, it should go
> > to the group, and changed the addressee. Rather than get into a bunch of flame wars,
> > let me simply say that a meeting should be planned, and orderly, and people should
> > not just form little groups and chatter. I've run two user groups for many years,
> > and though it's sometimes a pain, you need to know what's on the agenda, and do it.
> > It's fine to get sidetracked, if everyone is interested in the fork in the road; but
> > cocktail party jabbering is not a meeting in my opinion.
>
> --
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