[16:22] <doctormo> pleia2, cprofitt, greg-g: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/ubuntu-classes-poster/
[16:23] <pleia2> doctormo: is there a fee for this?
[16:23] <pleia2> if so, should mention it :)
[16:23] <doctormo> pleia2: True, I took off the free tag from the previous design
[16:30] <doctormo> pleia2: Is organiser in american spelt with a z?
[16:30] <pleia2> yes
[16:36] <cprofitt> doctormo, nice poster
[16:36] <cprofitt> doctormo, did I show you my new desktop?
[16:36] <Severity1> doctormo, can peoplefrom remote location participate?
[16:37] <doctormo> Severity1: In this class no, it's a physical class, but I plan on processing one section at a time and I'll try and get introductions and course materials online if you want to keep up
[16:37] <doctormo> Oh by course introductions, I mean video
[16:38] <cprofitt> doctormo, tell me what you think -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7563229&postcount=224
[16:38] <doctormo> cprofitt, pleia2: revision 2 btw
[16:38] <Severity1> ahhhh thanks! im sure many will be interested! ^^
[16:38] <cprofitt> I do believe in Amerglish its with a Z
[16:40] <pleia2> doctormo: I think an additional attention-grabbing "Free!" tag would be useful, "Free" is too ambiguous a term in that context (could mean that there are training sessions on free-as-in-speech systems)
[16:41] <doctormo> pleia2: I'm trying to balance, I had an attention grabbing Free tag just a second ago, but advice from other community center teachers has made me rethink it since it'd attract people who are not interested in the course, they just know it's free.
[16:42] <pleia2> LUGs don't have that problem
[16:42] <pleia2> we put "Free!" on all our stuff
[16:42] <Severity1> or Libre
[16:42] <pleia2> (and people *still* ask)
[16:43] <pleia2> but I think it helps a little :)
[16:43] <ziroday> people do loove free stuff
[16:44] <pleia2> I have just never seen it be a problem in practice
[16:44] <doctormo> pleia2: I'm not sure what LUGs are like outside of Boston, but here the LUG is doing well if they message their own mailing list, let along others or posters.
[16:45] <pleia2> doctormo: the philadelphia lug has about 700 members, 3 meetings per month, we sometimes have events with posters :)
[16:45] <pleia2> we're big
[16:45] <pleia2> one of the largest and most active in the world
[16:49] <doctormo> pleia2: My LoCo tends to stay away from the BLU (Boston LUG) it's stuffy, technical, none advocacy, not really interested in fresh blood, but then it is old.
[16:50] <pleia2> doctormo: yeah, it helps that I run PLUG
[16:50] <pleia2> it's still quite technical, but I have pulled it in the direction of less stuffy, and more advocacy
[16:50] <pleia2> (mostly because that's more fun, for me)
[16:52] <cprofitt> doctormo, I would not make it free
[16:53] <cprofitt> doctormo, the advice I had from some organizers is charge $5 to reserve the seat and then refund the money when they show
[16:53] <cprofitt> that way you do not get people signing up and NOT attending
[16:54] <cprofitt> others also talk about 'value' - people devalue 'free' things
[16:55] <pleia2> yeah, I have heard that argument as well
[16:55] <doctormo> pleia2: you heard that from me!
[16:55] <doctormo> cprofitt: Yes I understand that
[16:56] <pleia2> doctormo: actually I think the first time was from emmajane :)
[16:57] <doctormo> :-P
[16:58] <doctormo> cprofitt: It's sometimes worth just pushing the money into refreshments :-D
[16:58] <pleia2> mmm refreshments
[17:01] <doctormo> cprofitt: That screen is bueatiful by the way
[20:04] <doctormo> http://divajutta.com/doctormo/sysadmin-poster.svg
[20:52] <Lns> doctormo: nice =) I still hate how the word 'daemons' has somehow transferred to 'services'..ugh.
[20:52] <Lns> see that everywhere now
[20:54] <doctormo> Lns: Services and Daemons are not the same thing, services can mean anything from disk space or ldap and doesn't really mean the running process.
[20:55] <Lns> doctormo: Gnome's "System -> Administration -> Services" app begs to differ
[20:55] <doctormo> Meh, close relationship
[21:21] <pwnguin> daemon is greek for life
[21:22] <pwnguin> daemons are processes that "live" without explicit users running or using them
[21:41] <doctormo> pwnguin: interesting