[33] in Back_Bay_LISA
Re: proposal for meeting format change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Harris)
Thu Sep 3 15:45:36 1992
From: etnibsd!vsh@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Harris)
To: bblisa@inset.com (Back Bay LISA Maillist)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 14:27:43 EDT
uunet!Athena.MIT.EDU!kim writes:
>
> One thing I think the current meetings lack is an exchange of ideas
> concerning problems (and solutions) facing sysadms. Is anyone interested
> in using the last 30 minutes of each meeting for an open discussion?
> Should the discussion be moderated? Should someone write up a summary of
> the discussion and send it to the list?
re: open discussion
At the last meeting, I mentioned to somebody (Peg Schafer?) how useful
I've found the "wizard's panel" meetings at Usenix conferences. A
bunch of "wizards" sit at a podium and attempt to answer user's questions.
Since it may be difficult to get people to volunteer to be "wizards",
perhaps some similar format could be devised. One idea is to pass
around 3x5 file cards at the beginning of the meeting -- on which each
person can propose a question/topic for discussion. The moderator
would sift through the cards during the "formal presentation" come up
with a list of frequent topics, and use that list as a starting point
for the open discussion and/or as a suggestion for future meetings.
re: minutes
The problem is getting a volunteer to be scribe. Perhaps the
moderator(s) should ask for volunteer(s). I find it's usually better
if two people collaborate; when I do it by myself, I often spend so
much time taking notes I don't get to participate in the discussion,
but when two people collaborate, we can get together afterwords and
compare notes.
Bblisa is our group, we can make it into whatever we want!
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.. Steve Harris - Eaton Corp. - Beverly, MA - uunet!etnibsd!vsh
