One of the biggest challenges facing LUGs at the moment stems from the fact that a growing number have existed for ten years or more. Many of us know each other quite well, and newcomers often find it difficult to get a word in without feeling that they're somehow offending those to whom their problem seems trivial and not worthy of detailed discussion.
Some LUGs occasionally flare up into completely pointless flame wars that start over trivial macho tendencies of many members to prove their technological prowess at every opportunity. This tendency has led to some community fragmentation, with a single group forking into a group for veterans and one for newcomers. The problem is that such segregation comes at a cost and is often detrimental to the overall community because it discourages the involvement of newer members who might in time come to pass valuable information to those who come after. -- Jon Masters, in www.linux-magazine.com January 2006 issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ILUG-Goa meets on Dec 17, 2005 (Saturday). Wanted: lightening talks. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
