[volunteers] volunteers Digest, Vol 49, Issue 4

[Margaret Wendall]

Rick -

We discussed this face to face last week, and here is a formal proposal to
ask *Akkana Peck* to speak to us about the GIMP. I suspect there are a lot
of us who use this app and would appreciate a tutorial on how it works. I
know from experience that it's clumsy, and that it's not as "good" as
Photoshop for some things, but there are dozens of photorendering apps that
don't do really do the job, and the GIMP is powerful and literally free
software.

Margaret Wendall
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:27:45 -0800
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: [volunteers] Reminder:  TBA page
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> Right at the bottom of our General Meetings page, there's this:
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>   Possible future meetings, yet to be scheduled, are listed on our
>   TBA page [link].
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> Link goes to http://www.svlug.org/tba.php .  That's a page the Web Team
> maintains manually, appending to it any ideas for speakers/topics that
> people have mentioned on our mailing lists.  The idea is to serve as a
> place we can consult as a resource, whenever we're running low on
> scheduled speakers.  Notice that the page has, at _its_ bottom, quick
> links to other groups' speaker pages, so we might consider inviting
> someone who's given an interesting presentation at some nearby group in
> the past.
>
> I've mentioned the TBA page in this space several times, because I kept
> getting the impression people weren't using it.  The most recent time I
> mentioned it, someone replied (paraphrased) "That page has only topics
> we've already had."  Then, my impression is, everyone started ignoring
> the page again.
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> Well, surprise:  I've just cross-checked the page's thirteen entries
> against our Previous Meetings page, and NOT ONE of them is a
> presentation we've already had.
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> So, please stop ignoring the page, people.  It's there to help in
> situations exactly like the one we've been in for the past couple of
> years:  short on presentations.  We _could_ have presentations lined up
> for the next six months, instead of barely getting the March speaker a
> few days before the meeting, and having nothing for April.
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> Thanks.
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Margaret Wendall
mwendall-at-gmail-dot-com
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Juvenal
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