On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:01 AM, theju <[email protected]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@...> wrote: >> >> Find a convenient time (weekend?) and place - wherever most of the members >> are. If that means somewhere on the road to the hitech city, fine. >> >> And meet - even if there are 1 or 2 people at the venue. Start the meeting, >> finish it. Then write about it on the list. > > You are right. But having 1 or 2 people is very disappointing! > Folks, apart from a date please let us know a venue that is > comfortable to you. Let's decide the fate of 'our' LUG. At > the moment, things look very bleak. Your voice can make a > difference! >
Try setting up possible meeting times on doodle. http://www.doodle.com/ We (OLPC San Francisco) have had the hardest time in keeping things moving until we realized that people don't want to meet up on a Sat/Sun simply to listen to someone speak. They want hands-on activities. Installfests, hacks, Python sessions, etc. Our grouip now has focus and supports six micro-deployments of the OLPC XO-1 all over the world! http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf Think engaging activities! Even if its a talk on an up and coming Linux/FOSS technology, add a hands-on/demo to the talk. There are tons of topics (desktop, server, voip, security, languages, advocacy), but then again, I am preaching to the choir. As I've mentioned before, if the timing works out, I am willing to do something (over VoIP perhaps or some such thing?Sites like justin.tv are interesting for this as well) from here to help the LUG move forward. I was once a Hyderabadi, and I would love to give back :-) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ >> >> theju [20/09/09 05:36 -0000]: >> >Hi, >> >The activity in the group has reduced >> >and has been restricted to commercial >> >posts. Membership to the group has stagnated! >> >Also doesn't look like there seem to be >> >regular monthly meets (I am guessing this >> >is due to poor attendance). >> > >> >While this is true for most LUGs, I believe >> >we have a lot to learn from Ilug Chennai >> >which is going strong even today. >> > >> >This post is an RFC on how we can revive the >> >LUG and all activities we can carry out to >> >promote FOSS in our city. I am hoping to get >> >atleast one reply. Probably, we could have a >> >small meet in October to discuss the measures >> >needed to revive the LUG. >> > >> >-- >> >Cheers >> >Thejaswi >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----------------------------------------------- > Next Meeting as on our Website: http://ilughyd.org.in > -----------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
