[Coco] CoCo Talk #7 "For Beginners" Saturday, May 6th @ 2:00 PM EST

[RETRO Innovations]

On 5/5/2017 8:48 PM, Steve Strowbridge wrote:
> CoCo Talk #7 will be dedicated to newbies and beginners with the Tandy
> Color Computer, we will try and void "highly technical" talk as much as
> possible :)
I thought #6 was the non-technical talk? :-)

Is there a concern you're trying to address?  Is it that people have 
asked you to tone down the tech, or is there a desire to create more 
variety in topics?  Do tech discussions not work well in the format?  Is 
there a cycle of topic detail and this is the month for these talks, 
whereas another month with be more technical?

I ask because these notifications imply that the tech folks are not as 
welcome in the discussions, or that they are continuing to disrupt the 
discussions previously held.

Perhaps it might be worthwhile to put more clarity in place?  If the 
goal is to rotate between tech and non tech, that's fine.  If the goal 
is to focus on non-tech, that's probably OK, but where do the tech folks 
go for their weekly dose of this?  If the discussions always end up 
technical, even when the host tries to steer away from that, why does 
that happen?  Is there something that needs to be done?

I know, probably deeper than most folks care about, but as a "technical" 
person, the note about #6 and this #7 catering to the non technical 
crowd raised my eyebrows.

Jim