[LUG] LUG meet update

[Anurag Singh Rana]

Hi,

We are certainly not neglecting the 'development' part. I'm sorry if the mail 
mistakingly highlighted the debate as THE agenda of the whole meet. We are 
planning to have speakers to talk about development, new apps, new platforms, 
etc. As most of the time, it generally happens that the same set of people 
keep repeating, we thought that apart from the regulars, some new faces 
should come up. Forcing a topic would only reduce the number who volunteer to 
speak (which is 0 at present).

It has been observed that most people don't follow the technical talks(esp 
first years) and feel as if their presence is not of much use. Considering 
this, a less technical and more user oriented discussion on one topic (this 
time the debate on the two OSs) would be a nice idea. I personally feel that 
this would encourage more participation. A discussion about RPM and DEB can 
be done in some other meet.

Finally, just to clarify. The debate is just one of the things to be held in 
this meet, apart from other 'development oriented' talks and is certainly not 
the 'main agenda'. The previous mail was just like an 'eye catching ad' so 
that people participate with enthusiasm.

Regards,
Anurag.

PS: This mail describes the plan we came up with yesterday midnight (sagar, 
aprameya, rahul and me) along with some of my own personal views. Please 
correct me if I am going wrong. The meet is still quite far and we can always 
restructure.

> I don't get it. I thought the aim of these meetings was to make our "User"
> group into more of a "Developer" group. How does debating distros help? In
> a month or two, we'll have Fedora Core 5 and another new Ubuntu. And apart
> from rpm vs deb, there is absolutely nothing else to talk about - both of
> them are "just another linux distro" - so please find something more
> interesting and less disturbing. Because at the end of the night, this
> Ubuntu vs Fedora is going to be just as useless as having a debate
> regarding US Foreign policy in the Middle East.
>
> It would be better if you can point out the new features in upcoming
> versions of the respective distros (KDE4 is an eye-candy, GNOME is more
> user-friendly etc etc).
>
> All this can be done through mails too. Try to decide topics yourselves
> and then try to find speakers. Or, announce a handful of topics and let
> the folks pick up which one they want to hear.
>
> Vamsee