Report From Cat@lyst BBS (Sydney, Australia)    18th October 1995.


A few months ago we had a semi-washout open
day, a few people turned up but not so much long term
(despite good efforts by those involved).

But we had our first "workshop" on Sunday a week ago (8th Oct) and that
went pretty well.  Was a basic introduction to email and
using the net, like yours.  I think there were 4 people
there.  We are starting our workshops as being just to
people within the kore collective; there are sevral
different kinds of workshops we want to run:

	intro to using cat@lyst: modems, loggin in, email, lynx, etc.

	intro to writing web pages

	intro to hardware

	intro to UNIX

	UNIX system administration

depending on how popular they are.  Once we've done a round
of these workshops, we'll open them up and start advertising
them slightly wider I guess.  The room we have can only take
about 6 people max, so they'll be small.

One of the really great things about having cat@lyst
accessible in a bookshop is that the technology becomes more
human, I think.  Instead of isolated people at the end of a
modem; people can come in and mill about in a physical/human
space.

We have weekly meetings on Tuesday nights, which is a pretty
heavy commitment for some of us, but it means that one week
we have a general meeting, talkfest.  The alternate week, we
have a hands-on night, where people can come in and do
stuff, and get help from others that turn up.  At least
that's the idea, often it turns into a bit of a talkfest
anyway, but that's ok.


					Matthew.

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Matthew Arnison | maffew@lyst.apana.org.au | mra@physics.usyd.edu.au

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