Re: Virtual LUG Speakers was->RE: Another AS/400/iSeries/i5 UserGroup bits the dust

On 10/31/06, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are you currently going to your LUG meetings?
Would you go to your LUG meetings, more or less likely, if your major
presenter was a TV screen?
Would the next step be, why travel at all?  Why not just have a webcast at
home or work?  Or do you still like a little personal interaction?

well you can attend MIT now online:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-046JFall-2005/LectureNotes/index.htm

or Berkely:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.php?seriesid=1906978335

in the videos the professors sometimes mention that the students are
better off attending the lectures but they dont have to.

At NESTU I am seeing the appeal is one part the meal which is pretty
good, one part the networking, another part the change of pace, and a
few parts the speaker. If the speaker is Dr Frank and whoever the IBM
exec is that decides i5 policy via a video hookup, there would be a
good turnout.  But this is the symptom, not the disease. IBM really
has to replace the current i5 decision makers with a younger bunch who
understand the computer business.

-Steve