[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?

[Jonathan Miller]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, B. DEGRASSE wrote:
> I agree with the original posting, it is difficult coming up to speed.  How
> about a newbie email list where truely dumb questions can be asked.

As opposed to this mailing list? Sorry, couldn't resist.

Seriously, though, where are the dumb questions? I've never seen any
flaming going on on this list. I think that it's more than supportive of
newbies. In fact, I think creating another mailing list would cause more
problems than it's worth. There's not a huge amount of traffic on this
list, and if the newbies are off in their own little world, who will
answer there questions?

I know that there have been people guilty of saying, "RTFM" *cough* me
*cough*. It's not to be rude, it's just a) it's really useful to know
where the docs are and b) there's going to be a lot more information in
there than what I'm going to reply to any mailing list with and c) if you
still can't get it to work you'll be able to explain your problem better
so that someone can help you.

My question is: where are the newbies we are concerned about? I hear
little from them on the list. At the couple meetings I've been to they
seem the people at the beginners meeting seem either well enough
established or at least know what questions to ask.

Actually if I were forced to say anything negative about the NTLUG, it
would be that there is much here for the "veteran". Like my current
intrests are rolling my own distro for a few sparcs and doing pilot
programming under Linux. These are things I wouldn'teven dream of talking
about on this list normally.

OK, actually there are 2 thing that I would say. Secondly, us all being
fans of open source software, I'd like to know what kind of projects the
members are involved in, and possibly have NTLUG sponsored projects. 

.. but that's just my humble opinion

Are there any other individuals out there that although they help teaching
the newbies, also want to learn more for themselves?

-- Jonathan