You need the social aspect too. Installfests are a great way. The linux 10th anniversary party years back was great too. Food and drink somewhere (closest irani hotel say) after every meeting will turn out to be half the fun of the meeting itself.
-- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Sameer Verma <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:06:05 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TwinCLinG] Reviving the LUG 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 > > > > ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------- Next Meeting as on our Website: http://ilughyd.org.in -----------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links
