Meetings
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About Meetings
TWUUG exists as both an on-line and physical group. The on-line nature is handled through this website and the Email lists. Physical meetings are very important to the mission of the group. There are many reasons we have meetings:
- Putting real faces to names
- Building a TWUUG community
- Useful presentations and demos
- Hand out/obtain discs of various FOSS software
- Meeting in person with other members before and after the meeting
- Trade/swap/sell hardware
Attendance varies wildly. Sometimes as low as 20 and sometimes over 40. It depends of a variety of factors: weather, time of year, presentations offered, etc.
Meeting Dates/Times/Location
TWUUG meets on the first Thursday of each month. This date is moved if there is a conflict with a holiday. The date of the next meeting is always posted on our home page.
Normally, meetings are located at:
Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, VA 23502
757-461-5001x431
Normally, meetings start at 7:30pm and run until 9:30pm or so. We often have a premeeting dinner at 6pm and the location is announced on the mail list.
Directions
From Interstate 64: Take the Military Highway South exit (exit 281). Proceed south about 1/2 mile.You will pass the Hilton, and Norfolk Tech. Take a left on Lowery Road, which is between Farm Fresh and Walmart. Lake Taylor Hospital will be on your left, before Kempsville Rd.
From Interstate 264: Take the Military Highway North exit. Proceed north about 1 mile. You will pass Military Circle Mall. Take a right on Lowery Road, which is between Farm Fresh and Walmart. Lake Taylor Hospital will be on your left, before Kempsville Rd.
Meeting Structure
TWUUG is an informal group. Therefore, we do not adhere to any strict agendas for meetings. Some meetings are more structured than others, it depends on what needs to be covered that night. Here is a typical meeting:
- Optional pre-meeting dinner (off site) (90 min)
- Members and new people register on the signin sheet
- Welcome/Introduction (5 min)
- Presentation/Demo (10-45 min)
- Presentation/Demo (10-45 min)
- Open topics (if any)
- TWUUG Business (if any) (1-20 min)
- Discs made available to attendees
- Free time/post-meeting breakouts (up to 45 min)
- Pictures taken for new members
- Parking lot gatherings for diehards :)
Meeting History/Log
Not everyone can make it to a meeting, so we keep logs of what happened in each meeting on this website. We started keeping logs Jan 2005. With the introduction of this collaborative website (3/2006), it is now easy for presenters and attendees to elaborate in the log.
We even have audio recordings for a few of the meetings. You will find those links available too!
CLICK HERE to visit the log!
Audio Recordings
Audio recordings of several meetings may be found at the following locations (mirrors):
Presentation/Dicussion Recommendations
Please visit the Recommendations page to give recommendations for future meetings.
