Re: [activities] Re: Discussion about SLUG meetings and format

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> James,
> 
> Good discussion last night..it may have been useful for everyone in the
> room to have introduced themselves. I have updated wikipedia's
> disambiguation of slug to include SLUG.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(disambiguation)>
> 
> ...couple of further ideas, I would like to throw around.
> 
> *single slide  (ie 5 dot point) 10 minute talks/soapbox.
> *Annual SLUG Fest[ival] (SIGS)
> *bimonthly talks at Google/BOFs
> *alternate month meetings in the pub/restaurant - BYO
> laptop/projector/poster (be creative to get your message across) demos
> round a laptop/netbook/android......
> 
> Happy to get involved in the SLUG Website Hackfest, possibly only
> online....
> 
> Candidates for managing SLUG Web content were:
> -Drupal
> -Joomla
> -Wiki
> -Wordpress
> 
> Perhaps need an editor for website...useful to have dot points for talks
> on meeting announcement/webpage. Perhaps set pages up now for all events
> - date, venue...can be blank initially, in draft mode,  until week
> before meeting, where event is locked down.
> 
> Can the calendars discussed do this?
> 
> Marghanita   
> 
> 
> 
> James Polley wrote:
>> The good news is that we have lots of ideas on the wiki.
>>
>> The bad news is that this means I'm going to be looking for volunteers
>> to help organise something...
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:50 AM, James Polley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> My primary focus tomorrow night is going to be SLUGs meetings - I'm
>>> looking for ideas about changes we could make to the meeting timing
>>> and format.
>>>
>>> I've added a few ideas to the wiki at
>>> http://wiki.slug.org.au/crazy_ideas - please take a look over them and
>>> add your own ideas or thoughts.
>>>
> 
> 


 I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, but I want you to know
that long ago when I was on the committee for SLUG, I made a serious offer
to assist with managing the website and content, since at the time I was
 attending the website design course at Granville. Nobody ever followed
up with me about this, so I didn't pursue it since I had the distinct
impression nobody was taking me seriously.

 Of course, my membership of SLUG lapsed long ago and I haven't been to
a meeting since the venue changed from UTS, since I live in Bankstown,
and am restricted to public transport.

 I don't wish to become engaged in any flaming, even though I feel there
are several things SLUG could do to improve it's public profile. All I
want to say is that the offer is still there to help out if you wish to
contact me. I imaging much of the admin could be done off-site, and
since I am still currently not working, I have plenty of free time.

 Anyway, if you think I can be of some help, please feel free to contact me.

 Michael Kortvelyesy
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