Re: [LUG] today's meets and some observations etc.

[Jon Lawrence <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 26 September 2004 20:07, john wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 September 2004 3:36 pm, DaveNull wrote:
> > > Neil was apparently under the impression that the things discussed on
> > > saturday would be over the head of windows users
> >
> > Misquote. It was not designed with those users in mind - whether or not
> > they could understand it, it was not a meeting designed to meet their
> > needs. If they did, fine.
>
> not really, irrespective of the purpose of the meet, you did clearly enough
> state that you thought it would be over windows users heads.

I must say that I'm a bit confused on where you're going with this John.
I wasn't there at the meeting so I don't know the content that was discussed.
The company I work for has the pleasure of interacting with quite a few 
'users' of windows, most 'users' are exactly that - *users*. They have 
absolutely *zero* understanding of how a computer works - let alone how 
software interacts with that hardware to give them what they see on their 
screens. So from that you can deduce that *most* computer related topics 
would be over the head of *most* users - and since were talking about *most* 
users that can be inferred to be windows users - unless you don't assume any 
prior knowledge and explain things from scratch.
Obviously there are some users out there that would understand exactly what 
you'd be talking about - but they would not be 'normal' users/people.

If the meeting was targetted as a 'Masterclass' (whether it actually was or 
not) then I'd expect it to be over the heads of *most* users.

Jon

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