Re: Computers At Meetings
Re: Computers At Meetings
- Subject: Re: Computers At Meetings
- From: Matt Johnston <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:19:03 +0000
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 06:34 pm, Sarah Friedlander wrote:
So, my question the the AUGD board is basically, what would you do
about people bringing their own personal computers and using them at
meetings? Do you feel it is polite, rude?
Some people are turning up for the camaraderie, some people for the
chat, some for the group acceptance, some just to watch other people do
cool things on their computer and a few just because they have a free
night. Some demos are going to be hard to entertain everyone.
What rules would you enforce to keep the meeting running smoothly
through direct human communication than rather through the use of
computers.
In our experience the advent of iChat has helped immeasurably. We have
a weekly meeting without the awkwardness of actually turning up to meet
people...
...and during some demos the people lucky enough to have laptops send
notes (just like kids swapping notes in class).
We are lucky in that we can now use our local reseller for demos (okay,
we had to START the reseller ourselves but it's serving us well).
The big issue we have is not computers - it's where to get a projector
of suitable quality that we can run demos in any light level - most
cheap projectors need to have the lights switched off and in some cases
that is simply not possible.
M
Don't be afraid to take big steps.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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