Re: OCLUG needs a newbies night

Still!?!?! 

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:36:15 -0500
"Ian! D. Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would recommend that the current Tuesday meetings be clearly branded
> "for experienced Linux users only" until such time as OCLUG decides
> if/how to cater to the new users.
> 
> OCLUG needs to figure out if it wants to cater to new Linux users who
> have issues.  The current masthead "Serving the Linux community in
> the Ottawa area for 12 years" might mislead people with minimal Linux
> knowledge into showing up for an OCLUG Tuesday and being completely
> lost.
> 
> For example, I just got this:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message
> [...] I would really appreciate a call from you. I was going to go to
> Algonquin college last night, and after reading the meeting's agenda,
> I realized that this group is talking about subjects that I don't
> even know the title to.
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> I'm glad he didn't go; it would have been a big waste of his time.
> He needs to have someone walk through a[n] [X]Ubuntu install on his
> system (desktop and laptop) and help him deal with the issues he's
> having. An OCLUG meeting is not a place where he will find the help
> he needs, and the meetings should say that clearly and in big letters
> right up front.
>

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