[LUGSB] Meeting Ideas

[Mark]

I've been racking my brain trying to come up with topics for future 
meetings.  As it stands now there is no real agenda for next meeting. 
I've been thinking about holding a meeting that would not only be 
interesting to current members, but also pull new members into the club 
and towards linux in general.  I'm thinking that holding an 
"Introduction to Emacs" lecture would be really helpful and would 
definitely attract new members from higher level CSE courses, especially 
cse219 which is when students are basically first introduced to emacs 
and unix in general.  I think emacs would be a good place to start 
because many students at Stony Brook are just getting used to it, or are 
(more likely) struggling with it.  If we give a kind of "here's what you 
have to know about emacs" talk.  I think it would be well received.  I 
have no intentions of this talk occurring next meeting, but maybe 3 or 4 
meetings from now.  I would love to hear any other ideas that anyone 
has.  Also, while I think I would be able to give an 'intro to emacs' 
lecture, I don't think that I would be the most qualified.  If anyone on 
the list feels like they have strong emacs skills and would like to 
either give the lecture or help someone else in preparing one, please 
let us know.  I hope to see a bunch of you at the next meeting this 
coming wednesday (2/12) which will most likely be a kind of social hour 
unless we can come up with something better to do.  Maybe we should just 
have a meeting where we sit around and think up ideas for other meetings.

--Mark.