[ale] ALE NW meeting was a success?

[Emil P. Man]

Eric VanWieren wrote:

> I think that the biggest problem was the tackling of multiple installs 
> at the same time. With the way most of the packaged distros are, it 
> might have been better to do one at a time, or to step through 
> portions of each install and then go to the next when one got to the 
> copying/installing phase. As it was, I was not able to follow 
> everything that was going on. 

Okay first off, sorry I haven't replied to this message in a really long 
time. I have been extremely busy with certain conferences this past two 
weeks and next week I will be in Washington DC all week long and I have 
not had time to check the mailing list. Sorry about that. Secondly, I 
agree that it was not the best organization yet I think it was a success 
compared to some of our other meetings in the past. We had a good turn 
out and we had lots of issues to discuss.

> Then again, there was the debacle with the deletion of  the root user. 
> No names are mentioned to protect the innocent (Emil). (Don't worry he 
> is a friend of mine and should be able to take the joke) That was 
> actually a good chance to teach people about how user authentication 
> works. However, people were still hacking away at the other distro's 
> while the problem of fixing the root user was being handled.
>
1) Who are you???? lol
2) It wasn't me. lol

> It would have been awsome if someone could have taken control of the 
> room and brought their attention to the problem at hand. This would 
> have provided a great learning opportunity ( redundant yes I know). 
> From some of the comments in the room, it sounded as if not everyone 
> was familiar with the layout of the shadow and passwd files. The 
> problem was eventually fixed, but I do not know if anyone got much out 
> of the situation.
>
yes it would have made a good topic of discussion. completly agreed.

> Overall I enjoyed myself. However, if I was a newbie and it was my 
> first visit, I do not know if I would return. I do not want to rain on 
> anyones parade, but I am just trying to be honest. I might just be 
> used to a little more structure, but I just can't say.

hope you'll come again Eric.

Emil