Since, I tend to lurk and not come to meetings much, let me do a quick intro. I'm Nikki, also involved with the Ubuntu LoCo project and have been lurking around GNHLUG for about over a year (and I've been to a couple of CentraLUG meetings). By trade, I'm a theme (web) developer, specifically specializing in Drupal theming. Most of my contribution to the open source community in general has been in the form of documentation, answering new user questions, and just in general advocacy and spreading the word to people who don't know. Outside of my sphere of work, I don't develop, and I don't really consider myself anything other than an average user who isn't afraid to tinker with things and fix them myself if I need something specific.
Not with the intent to be rabbelrousing at all, but one of the reasons why I *personally* haven't been very involved with GNHLUG, either on the mailing list or in attending meetings is because most of the topics that I've seen being covered aren't in my realm of interest or are beyond my skill level. Excluding last Sunday's BBQ, I've only been two meetings in the past year. One was on Drupal, the other was on activism... My dissapointment has been in the fact what I've observed with GNHLUG in the past year is that there is very little offered by the group as a whole for brand new users and non-developer users. Like Arc, my vision for what an Ubuntu SIG (or any other distro specific SIG for that matter) is more of a support group for new and less experienced users, which would be a demographic that is most likely to be asking distro specific questions and needing distro specific support, and it would get these new users involved with a communtiy. I can certainly see this need for this in my own life. My husband has had quite a bit of sucess in the past three months of convincing family and coworkers to try Ubuntu, and while I'm thrilled about this... when it all of the sudden feels like your phone has turned into the "How do I do X in Ubuntu?" hotline, you find yourself strongly wishing for a group to which you can refer your friends for support. -- nikkiana http://www.knitgeeklife.com
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