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

[Salvador Garcia]

I think that Steve is just trying to make the talk as appealing as possible to the largest number of people.

I have had experience with this and have found that no matter what the discussion is about, more advanced people will be put off if the talk is too basic and beginners will get put off if the talk gets too techie.

It is hard to control what the topics will be, especially when the idea behind the event is just to come in and hang out for awhile while discussing CoCo stuff. If I understand, Steve wants to provide a general direction, but does not want the event to be totally structured.

There atoo many possibilities for online events.The CoCo Crew already gives us a structured podcast which is good, but not interactive. Steve now provides The Talk, a totally interactive experience, but not very structured. All we need now are a series of online conferences touching on different subjects, or even given by those that sell products as a way to provide information on how to use them all the while promoting them and getting feedback from current owners. :-)

Salvador

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 To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
 Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 9:11 PM
 Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Talk #7 "For Beginners" Saturday, May 6th @ 2:00 PM EST
   
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



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