29 June 2002 SYRLUG Steering Committee Meeting Notes

• Meet the needs of novices and experienced users alike
• Steering Committee
• Generating Presentation Topics for Upcoming Meetings
• Upcoming Presentations
• Installfest

We need to announce presentation topics in advance.

Meeting will be made up of three parts:

1. Half-hour novice training session
   • Find lesson materials (Running Linux)
   • online materials best (ie. LPI.org)
   • Cycle through the novice curriculum
2. Hour-long Q&A session
   • Novices sometimes need one-on-one help.
   • We should discuss this further at the next meeting.
3. Hour-long Technical Session

Core group membership, but open to full membership

Core group:

• Len Kaplan
• Josh Kaplan
• Scott Brady
• Jason Grimes
• Mark Krentel
• Dave DeCirce
• Jym Williams Zavada

Add to e-mail list only: Dave Soergel

Meetings are every other month on the 3rd Saturday at 1:30PM (Next one is 17 Aug 02)

Generating Presentation Topics for Upcoming Meetings:

1. Request Presentation Topics on each meeting's sign-up sheet.
2. Suggestion Box at the entry to meetings.
3. Set up and announce e-mail suggestionbox@syrlug.org

Upcoming Presentations:

July: User Account Management - Jym Wms. Z.

Aug: Star Office - Scott Brady (On my Workstation)

Make sure we get together to ensure my workstation has all the needed hardware and software, and everything is configured and works for the presentation.

Sept: IP address translation (NAT) - Mark Krentel

Beyond will be discussed at the next Steering Committee Mtg.

Installfest:

Next one: Sat Oct 12th from 1-5PM Announce at meetings, and put on website.

Do we want to have regular installfests? Yes

More discussion needed, during next Steering Comm. Mtg.