Dave B.
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Jesse Kline wrote:
This is not a bad idea, but there are a couple of problems with implementing something like this. First of all, I think the last thing we want to do is fragment CLUG. We may have 100 teir 2 members, and 70 people coming to meetings, but we are still a relitively small users group. People come to CLUG for local support and networking, if you want to be involved in a community that is more specific, these are available on the internet. If we fragmented CLUG, we just would not have enough people in these subsections. I think even large users groups would have a hard time with more than two subsections. The only time I have heard of a group doing something like this is in the case of the Toronto Linux Users Groups. They have seperate meetings for newbies, and for advanced users. In there case it is probably necessary because of the population, but in a place like Calgary, those groups would be too small.
The other problem is that something like this will most likely never get implemented. There are lots of great ideas that come up on the mailing list, but lost of them take lots of time and effort to implement, and no one ever does it. Our executive has worked very hard to get CLUG to where it is today, but I know that their time is precious. What I think we need to do is focus on what kind of small steps we can take to make sure that we keep the interest of all sorts of different Linux users. Making some changes to the website is a good example of this. Personally I know that there are lots of faces that I used to see at the meetings, when I first started going to CLUG, that I have not seen in a long time. I would like to know why some of these people don't come any more, and maybe then we can make some changes like reforming the meeting structure, or balancing the types of presentations that we have.
Jesse
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