When I posted the announcement (not the email, but Scott has more or less copied my wording), I anticipated what he suggests -- 30-45 mins for each topic. Assuming Scott goes first, I think we can assume starting git discussion about 7:15, and I was presuming Robert would begin with about 30 mins of more or less standard talk, and I would moderate Q&A to get in some topics I feel affect those of us who are non-power users and need a way to avoid being "cold" each time we need to use git. Robert: Does that work for you? This conversation highlights the situation that Linux-Ottawa is a much less focussed group than a few years ago, and the general lack of organizational manpower to plan and direct meetings. Those of us still doing it do make sure there is a space and some topic. Sometimes we've more structure than others. I note that lots of other organizations are facing similar challenges. Meetups seem to pop up and die quite a lot. Traditional organizations find folk claiming not to have time. Maybe we need 5 days a month where mobiles only handle phone calls. Or a mandatory app that allows only 35 mins a day lit screen. We also have several different streams of users. Whereas when I started to come to the then OCLUG meetings, it was mostly folk doing software development. Now we also have Win-refugees, people wanting to use open source software who are not necessarily programmers, as well as our hard-core. Some members may feel that this "just isn't like it used to be", and makes for difficult meetings -- it does! The up-side is that Linux is now more widely used, and by a more diverse base. That could be an opportunity, but probably we need to involve new members to exploit that. JN On 2019-11-01 7:42 a.m., Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Scott Murphy wrote: >> >>> I’m up for adding a git talk to the November meeting. I’m doing what >>> I expect will be a shorter ansible talk about using it to configure >>> your laptop, workstation, or whatever. I doubt it will be a two hour >>> talk. I suspect that the main points will be covered in 30 to 45 >>> minutes. >> >> so can we get a more precise schedule? as i mentioned, i offered to >> present what can be a 30-minute talk on the architecture of the git >> object database. the oclug web page states, "Robert Day and John Nash >> will lead a discussion on using git", but i have no idea what that >> means. >> >> can someone clarify whether there is any interest in my proposed >> talk and, if so, where it would fit in the evening? thanks. > > as a followup to this, i think the description of upcoming meetings > should always be more precise and scheduled so that interested parties > can better decide if it's something they're interested in. > > currently, the description is somewhat vague: > > * Scott Murphy will talk about provisioning your personal systems > with ansible > * Robert Day and John Nash will lead a discussion on using git > > if someone is interested in ansible, they would still be wondering > exactly what the topic would be. more to the point, if someone had no > idea what ansible is, it would be worth adding a couple sentences to > describe it to get their attention. > > and i'm willing to provide a paragraph of exactly what my proposed > talk would be about so attendees would know just what's coming, and if > they care. :-) > > if there's time for my presentation, i'd advertise it socially, but > it would need more detail on the web page. > > thoughts? > > rday > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org