The reason I ask the question is that I have been in contact with Ralph 
Prowell, a teacher at Collins College.  He is currently teaching a 5 week 
course on intro to *nix or something like that.  The same group of students 
will then be going into the next course on *nix admin.  They use Linux as the 
OS for these courses.

Anyway, Ralph will be using the December meeting as a field trip for about a 
dozen students to come and meet real Linux users and professionals and wants 
an opportunity for these students to actually learn something.

This does not preclude having a sugar party but I think we will need to have 
some structure to the meeting, like a question and answer session or a brief 
intro to admin or something like that.

Alan

On Thursday 29 November 2001 12:54 am, you wrote:
> That's what we've done the last two years. I'd love to have a short topic
> as well. I think we did a short state of the union type of thing last year
> then started inhaling sugar :).
>
> Vic, Jim: can we change the topic to be pot luck holiday party?
>
> Steve: is there a Dec West side party? This year you've been doing 4th Tue
> which is Christmas next month. Probably not gonna have many people turning
> out anyway :).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans