Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Next meeting - 2nd December

On Sunday 26 Nov 2006 12:17, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> One of the things I found when scheduling
> talks is that a lot of people felt they didn't know enough about the
> subject and were "just newbies". This simply isn't true. If you use a piece
> of software regularly (like you mail client) you can spend 5 minutes
> talking about how you use it.

Speaking as a perennial newbie, I would worry more about the audience. I can,
and have, spend/t 10 minutes showing Kmail's paces at a BaB to someone who
was looking to choose an email client and wanted to know about it. But I
knew that on that occasion and speaking to that particular person I did in
fact know more about that specific application. A LUG meeting talk would be
quite another matter. I would know that the majority of my audience knew far
more about my subject than I did - on any relevant subject you care to name.

I cannot be alone in this. So it is not only that we feel that we do not know
our subject well enough - it is the knowledge that almost everyone else does
know the subject!

Lisi