[kwlug-disc] Meeting formats

[B.S.]

Sorry, don't have any favourite links.

I almost never even use youtube or visit any video links. Even when I 
contemplated something about DNS years ago, I first recognized that some 
nifty diagrams would be needed. Just not my forte, nor the time / interest.

I suspect I'm very much behind the times. I expect the medium has much 
to offer - certainly it seems all the rage in learning / training.

Perhaps others might share their favourite links / topics?


On 08/16/2016 12:22 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>
> I think B.S. has volunteered to make one of the short presentations
> with a YouTube video as his A/V material.
>
> Let's see how it works out!
>
> On 2016-08-16 09:16 AM, B.S. wrote:
>> 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?