[kwlug-disc] Meeting formats

[B.S.]

Perhaps it doesn't even need to be a 'presentation' - which can be a lot 
of work. Any reason it couldn't be a favourite YouTube link of 10 - 15 
minutes, appending a 5 - 10 minute Q&A surrounding why the 'nominator' 
liked it / how they found it useful / how they applied it / show & tell 
of the .conf file they ended up with, or whatever?

A quick example I can think of is DNS. Any such presentation probably 
wants to start of with a quick overview of what it is / why it matters, 
and probably needs some spiffy diagrams to go with it. Which I'll guess 
is already present in some YouTube link somewhere. The tail end of which 
might include hosts files and static dhcp entries - the .conf of which 
could then be shown to demonstrate how one's home computing life got 
happier / simpler.

There's so much content out there, onerous to duplicate / why reinvent 
the wheel - could be leveraged?


On 08/13/2016 10:13 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>
> Okay. November and onward is free. Somebody offer some presentations,
> and I will schedule them. We can have 3 presentations a night or maybe
> 4.
>
> Presentations need not be on esoteric topics. Explaining something you
> use every day (as Tim did with his presentation) is fine, because
> things that are obvious to you are not necessarily obvious to the rest
> of us. There are a lot of relative beginners to free software who find
> KWLUG intimidating because we tend to present highly technical topics.
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 09:52:35PM +0000, Adam Glauser wrote:
>> I liked the format. I think Bob's suggestion is promising too.
>>
>> One potential problem with having many talks is that we will more quickly
>> run out of willing presenters.
>>
>> On the other hand, preparing a shorter talk (by which I mean shorter than
>> two hours) might be more accessible for some (myself included!). I hope
>> this will make up for the need for more presentations over all.
>>
>> I am in favour of trying a meeting format with 3 or more shorter talks for
>> at least a few months to see how it is received.