How it begins...(8)

Author: Frog Lam

You should not mind my late reply.

This idea came to me as a surprise and my first impression was mostly resistant.

However, over time, I have gained confidence by seeing the enthusiasm from the organizers.

Let me express my best wishes to each of you, including any other potential participant, that we will all open our eyes through this activity.

My main concern is about the expansion in size: we want it grow, not to vanish after 4 or 5 times.

About the rules of the UBC, I share most opinions with what sun0 said in email.

I tend to be more conservative on the strict regulations which will discourage participants, especially the requirement to give a talk.

I spent time to search my brain for anything I can talk about, but found nothing special.

Even if we allow talks on subjects they were not familiar with, I don't think they will be motivated to do so.

As a result, such people like me, who think they don't know many things and are eager to learn from others, may retreat from us.

Frankly I remain doubtful whether my dumb head has got anything to share.

If I am still too idiotic, too disappointed, or simply too lazy to prepare my talk, I am ready to leave.

And the same may apply to other lazy participants.

On the other hand, limiting each person to give at most 2 talks seems too stringent.

If we decided to have meetings weekly, and over 1~2 months, we will quickly exhaust auknife, sun0, Adam and Clare.

From MRC performance, auknife is undoubtedly among the best speaker out of us.

Our strategy is to set a good example ourselves, and raise it as an attraction to others, but as soon as everything runs smooth, we lost the best speakers.

Just cancel it.

I am with Clare that bi-weekly meetings are too sparse, while weekly meetings are, to me, too harsh.

Would we consider holding it every 10~11 days?

As an example:

  1st Meeting Aug 31 (Tue)

  2nd Meeting Sep 11 (Sat) @ Lunch time, etc.

  3rd Meeting Sep 21 (Tue)

  4th Meeting Oct 2 (Sat) @ Lunch time, etc.

Though coming back to school on weekends is unfavourable, it won't make huge different: we already have to prepare for a talk, do reading for other people's talks, etc.

Saturday meetings also allow flexibility in time and format.

Everything else makes good sense.

This is perhaps all we can plan before the show begins.

Special thanks to Helic's coordination.

祝發揚光大