Sat, 12 Mar 2005
GLLUG Meeting -- March 2005 Happened!
As I mentioned before
I was heavily involved in putting this meeting together. And it seemed to
go pretty well!
We had three speakers but we had to shuffle the order around a bit, one was a little late and one was having technical problems. With very little time for preparation Pete Ryland stepped up and drew in the crowd. There were actually a couple of people from Ubuntu (and the Debian UK mailing list) which added a fair amount of clue to the audiences questions. I personally didn't get to see more than short snippets of the talk as I played host, chatting to different people, ensuring the speakers were OK and generally looking bemused. But it was fun.
While most things went well I did pick up on a couple of things I screwed up on:
- Get the speakers to arrive early to test equipment.
- Arrange talk durations with the speakers and work out a better way of communication with them than waving sheets of paper from the back of the room.
- Knowing when to kill question sessions.
- Get someone competent to do the introductions and notices. I suck in front of crowds.
All-in-all it went quite well, I might even be organising the next one!
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