Orna Agmon wrote:
Hi Haim,
My POV is that "If you build it, they will come". Nobody _needs_ posters
in order to get a LUG going. Posters may be printed for W2L events, but
usually (at least in Haifux) promotion of the W2L was done using simple
copy-machine prints.
And ofcourse the time of the LUG coordinator/s.
The important thing about setting up a LUG is getting good lecturers to
begin a standard, and getting good people who wish to be the core of the
group. I suggest that before investing money in PR, you researched the
level of interest in that regard.
In the JLC there are almost two paralel courses going - the 1st is the
common weekdays afternoon lectures which requires lecturers as mentioned
but we also have a wired Saturday night meetings tradition going on
which allows those who can't come to the lecture to enjoy the community
atmosphere and participate in other activities. I guess theses Saturday
night meetings are much like the Tapuz forum meetings and naturaly it
does not require lecturers and relay mostly on some sort of community.
Previous new LUGs did not have a LUG within about 100 kilometers from
them. BIUX will have Telux in the same city. Will there be enough people
who want to come to BIUX? Or will the people who come to Telux just come
sometimes here and sometimes there, thus reducing the number of people in
each lecture? A minimal number of people is required in a lecture,
otherwise the lecturer feels cheated - the lecturer has travelled for some
time, wasting money and time, and "nobody" (or very few people) want to
listen to him/her.
To be honest we had two lectures canceled in the JLC due to lack of
audiance and despite being far from otehr LUGS and indeed it was no fun,
not for the lecturers and not for me. I guess the secret is to keep
going, FOSS is gaining more interest with every year/month/week and
consistent LUG activity will pay sooner or later.
Anyway, back to the point I raised before, I hope letting the activists
choose where the budget they get goes will let them come up with
creative ideas and solutions that will finnaly push FOSS, in general,
forward.
Dotan
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