[kwlug-disc] Meeting formats

[B.S.]

Paul, I think you have missed the point.

If what you suggest were true, there would be no interest in K-W LUG 
presentations at all. Nor would there be so much duplicated content for 
the same subject out there, vs the suggested 'I found this one really 
useful.' And everyone would have come away from every topic with a 
complete understanding of that topic and have completely implemented 
every detail of that topic. And K-W LUG wouldn't exist. Yet it does.

Every question and barrier to implementation would be answered, by your 
statement. Everyone will already have watched every bit of material, as 
everything matters, and we all have infinite time. None of which, I 
suspect, is completely correct or K-W LUG wouldn't exist. Yet it does.

You wouldn't be regularly begging for presentations. And this thread 
about meeting formats wouldn't exist. Yet it does.

Please re-affix your impassive, neutral, moderator, whatever the group 
wants, hat. Rather than killing an idea, when ideas have been asked for 
as they have run out, out of the gate. If the thought has merit, the 
group will respond - if it doesn't, it won't. But that is theirs to say.

No reason to kibosh freely available material in favour of forcing 
everyone to reinvent the wheel every time. Material preparation is hard 
and onerous, and not everyone's cup of tea. Especially as 
non-presentation-professional, extra-curricular, volunteers. Or this 
thread wouldn't exist, yet it does.



On 08/16/2016 01:10 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>
> Because watching videos during a meeting is boring? Why not just sit
> at home in our collective underwear and watch videos on our own? Does
> the post-discussion really add that much?
>
> Having said that, if you or others would like to try this approach
> then we can schedule whatever people offer.
>
> - Paul
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 06:30:12PM -0400, B.S. wrote:
>> 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?