[PD] Pd-berlin meeting on tuesday || 28 || 28 || 28 || not on 21..

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, servando barreiro wrote:

> Pd Berlin also had packed days in the beguinning.  some people at Nk 
> were surprised somehow to see the amount of people in the early meetings 
> in comparison with the supercollider meet.

Did you have beginners expect to hear presentations made for beginners, 
and lurkers expect to hear presentations made for lurkers ?

> with "surprise" guests  and also improvised "last-patch showcase"..  I 
> have to apologize for non documenting and archiving the pdBln meets as 
> they deserve..  but well.. It´s never too late (and I still have some 
> vids and pics from former meetings..).

I usually forget to take pics... There's also some footage but we didn't 
use it.

> As I see in  your arquive from pdmtl, seems to be quite more serious and 
> organized than pdBln but of course, we are different countries, cultures 
> and approaches but both of them valid..  B-)

I don't think that it's a cultural thing, I think it depends on the people 
involved. I only put together the announcements of (almost all) the first 
32 meetings and I always made sure I had an announcement for each meeting 
because if I don't, many more people get lazy. That's very rare for 
something called a Users Group. The computer users groups I know in my 
city (I don't know many of them) tend to involve two, one or zero 
presentations, and may sometimes focus more on the beer than anything 
else. I could've done it like that, but decided to have the most content I 
could gather each time. I didn't try to imitate other users groups, other 
than using the words "users group"...

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