[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbwireless Digest, Vol 4, Issue 18

[Simon (NodeIRC)]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:53:36 +1100
> From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Your Feedback on General Meetings
> To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
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> Hi Guys,
>
> The Melbourne Wireless Committee have been discussing ways to get more
> people to come back to General Meetings.  We've had a few ideas, and we'd
> like your feedback on them.
>
> The general ideas we've had are:
>
> Bringing structure back to the meetings
>
> Bring back nametags - different colours for Committee, Members and
> Visitors.
>
> Giving people a reason to attend - Potential drawcards for meetings could
> be:
>
> Presentations at every meeting - from hardware distributors or from
> Melbourne Wireless people
>
> Workshops - breaking the meeting up into smaller, specialised groups to
> discuss and learn about particular issues
>
> Having a "welcoming committee" - make sure we acknowledge all attendees
> and
> ask them what they want from the meeting - then direct them towards the
> appropriate person/group.
>
> A Swap Meet - encourage more members to bring in under-utilised wireless
> gear to swap or sell.  If this proves popular we may start to invite
> hardware retailers to attend.
>
> Also, I've been thinking about the structure of the evenings - what time
> should things happen?  I'd like to keep things moving along fairly fast so
> the evening doesn't drag out for newbies.  When the planned events are
> over
> people can hang around until late chatting like they usually do.
>
> Here's a proposal for an agenda:
> 7pm    - Doors Open - Prepare BBQ
> 7.15pm - BBQ up and running.  Newbies directed towards "welcome committee"
> or introduction workshop.  Members mingle and chat.
> 7.45pm - Committee Report, Official Meeting Business
> 8pm    - Region Group reports - pre-planned - short and sharp
> 8.15pm - Workshops - newbies, setting up a node, hardware "show & tell",
> etc
> 9pm    - Presentations - hardware vendors, Melbourne Wireless people, etc
> 9.30pm - Swap Meet until late.
>
> The timing and order of things can be fiddled with - but once they are
> agreed upon I'd like to try sticking to them.
>
> I know having the BBQ that early is a radical idea. :) But I'd like to try
> having it as part of the early welcoming phase of the meeting.  Once
> people
> are fed they are more likely to focus on the meeting... That's the theory.
> I thought I'd fly the idea up the flagpole.
>
> Your feedback on these ideas would be much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan


If someone wants to have a few minutes on the floor to talk about a
Melbourne Wireless/Wireless/Computer issue to the whole group, there should
be a proceedure to say your thing at the 9PM Presentations. Perhaps put your
name down on a list on the wiki, or on a hardcopy list at the meeting to be
allocated a place after the person before.

Also with the Presentations, a whiteboard should always be available, and
possibly a large map of Victoria.

Also, we should set a 'standard' or expectation for attendies to install a
VNC client on thier Wireless-Connected laptop before the Presentations, so
that Presentors are able to have a view-only VNC server enabled (at a
resolution of 800x600) for attendies to see their website, powerpoint
presentation, software, etc. that they are talking about to complement the
presentation. Not everyone brings a laptop to meetings, but there should be
enough people with laptops in the Audience for others to look at someone
else's. Projectors arn't as cool, even if we had a projector.

--Simon Gnieslaw (QuickReply -- #492)
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