[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Miller <betaray at kludge.org> writes:

    Jonathan> Actually if I were forced to say anything negative about
    Jonathan> the NTLUG, it would be that there is much here for the
    Jonathan> "veteran". Like my current intrests are rolling my own
    Jonathan> distro for a few sparcs and doing pilot programming
    Jonathan> under Linux. These are things I wouldn'teven dream of
    Jonathan> talking about on this list normally.

Did you mean to say 'not much here for the veteran?' And, btw, we do
regularly force people to say bad stuff about NTLUG but, <checking the 
list>, you weren't scheduled for some time. :>

This is the damnable tension however: veterans want more veteran stuff 
(but don't *need* it); newbies *need* more newbie stuff and can't
really function too well w/out it.

It's just a very hard thing to get right. Very hard as in 'practically 
impossible'.

    Jonathan> OK, actually there are 2 thing that I would
    Jonathan> say. Secondly, us all being fans of open source
    Jonathan> software, I'd like to know what kind of projects the
    Jonathan> members are involved in, and possibly have NTLUG
    Jonathan> sponsored projects.

Sure. We've done that before. NTLUG hosted The Casbah Project
(http://www.casbah.org) for a long time before it got its own
home. Chris uses NTLUG to distribute his Impress tool.

    Jonathan> Are there any other individuals out there that although
    Jonathan> they help teaching the newbies, also want to learn more
    Jonathan> for themselves?

This is supposed to be the point of the 'main' monthly technical
presentation.

<Kendall/>
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