[newbie] Re: [discuss] Meetings

Ian Truelsen newbie@vlug.org
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:51:48 -0800


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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:42:19 -0800
Ken Murray <ken@bcvnet.com> wrote:

> I translate it as this:  "How about we turn away a large number of our
> membership on every even-numbered month?"
> 
> In my opinion, one of the mandates of a LUG is to promote newbies and
> I can't honestly see a good reason to exclude them from a full half of
> all meetings.
> 
I tend to disagree here. My route from noob to
enough-info-to-be-dangerous status in linux, largely came down to
listening to something over my head technically and then trying to
figure it out. I think that those with less technical knowledge would be
happy to be challenged. Those who aren't can still take advantage of the
free internet access :)

> BTW, no flamage intended.
> 
None inferred.

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