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Richard Warburton | 6 Oct 2007 18:28

2nd Event Proposal

For much of the last year the LUG has talked about running regular
programming sessions for project stuff.  This has been called
BUGFLUG/XING/QING/YING and has variously run on Monday afternoon, and
Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.

I had optimistically hoped that this kind of thing could run in
parallel to gaming on fridays, but its not really been
happening.Consequently I propose that we start running saturday night
QING again.  Try and get stuff done on projects.  Thoughts?

  mullet

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Daniel Watkins | 6 Oct 2007 20:59

Re: 2nd Event Proposal

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 17:28 +0100, Richard Warburton wrote:
> I had optimistically hoped that this kind of thing could run in
> parallel to gaming on fridays, but its not really been
> happening.Consequently I propose that we start running saturday night
> QING again.  Try and get stuff done on projects.  Thoughts?
I think a problem we have now that we hold gaming in DCS (our primary
location for *ING) is that it's too easy for us to get distracted and
start playing games (especially when running alongside gaming).  This
means that some people will come along hoping to do something of some
interest or use to the world and find a load of WUGLUG people shouting
at each other over DotA/UT/Proball[0].

We also have an issue that many people won't want to give both their
Friday and Saturday nights to CompSoc events and so will only go to one
or the other.  If people have to go to gaming because they have
technical duties to perform, we make it very difficult for them...

One solution might be to run XING at the same time as gaming but in the
other DCS room, so we don't have the distractions of gaming unless we
make the conscious decision to switch rooms.  Ideally, gaming would
switch rooms so we could make use of the whiteboard in CS0.01...

To summarise, I agree that we need to get these events running again,
but I'm not convinced that Saturday night is the time to do it.

Dan

[Footnote 0: Proball!]
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Richard Warburton | 7 Oct 2007 00:18

Re: 2nd Event Proposal

On 10/6/07, Daniel Watkins <D.M.Watkins@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 17:28 +0100, Richard Warburton wrote:
> > I had optimistically hoped that this kind of thing could run in
> > parallel to gaming on fridays, but its not really been
> > happening.Consequently I propose that we start running saturday night
> > QING again.  Try and get stuff done on projects.  Thoughts?
> I think a problem we have now that we hold gaming in DCS (our primary
> location for *ING) is that it's too easy for us to get distracted and
> start playing games (especially when running alongside gaming).  This
> means that some people will come along hoping to do something of some
> interest or use to the world and find a load of WUGLUG people shouting
> at each other over DotA/UT/Proball[0].

Agreed.

> We also have an issue that many people won't want to give both their
> Friday and Saturday nights to CompSoc events and so will only go to one
> or the other.  If people have to go to gaming because they have
> technical duties to perform, we make it very difficult for them...

I'm inclined to agree here, I would rather not have saturday taken
over, it was just mooted as an idea time.

> One solution might be to run XING at the same time as gaming but in the
> other DCS room, so we don't have the distractions of gaming unless we
> make the conscious decision to switch rooms.

I'd rather not have this as a 'split the society' thing, I think we've
had enough of that already.

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Daniel Watkins | 7 Oct 2007 00:58

Re: 2nd Event Proposal

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 23:18 +0100, Richard Warburton wrote:
> Whilst I agree with your points, but do you have a better suggestion
> that doesn't involve splitting with gaming?
Well, the only reason I was making suggestions which involved splitting
with gaming was that I assumed that a QING wouldn't have gaming at the
same time.  TBH, I don't think that just doing it in the other room is
that big of a deal, especially if we're going to be going into the
gaming room whenever we want to use the whiteboard...

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University of Warwick Christian Focus President
University of Warwick Computing Society WUGLUG Liaison Officer

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