On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Karl Cunningham wrote: > > > It's great for me but I have a car. I don't know the public > > transportation situation at SDCOE, but it does seem pretty dark around there > > when leaving our meetings. I was thinking that for public outreach, it might > > not be ideal. > > > > Meeting space was a problem for a long time. But for years now we have had > the SDCOE space and it has worked out well and we are very reluctant to give > it up. I've always wished we could get regular meeting space at SDSU. It has > public transportation (I remember when I was a student there and I > participated in a poll as to on which side of campus the trolley stop should > be. 10 years later we have our trolley!) and is nearby a large group of > potential Linux users: students. But again the problem with educational > institutions is that you usually need a faculty sponsor who gives a care > enough to actually arrange for the meetings and that is hard to come by. > > My very first LUG meeting was at SDSU. We had something like 4 people. It > met once and never met again. In hindsight I really wished we had kept it up > but I had plenty of friends online which made the LUG not a real high > priority. This is a problem KPLUG has as well as far as getting people to > come to physical meetings. User group meetings of all sorts have had > severely decreased attendance since the Internet has taken off. Even the > trade shows are feeling the pinch. > > > Physical meetings can be difficult to attend for a lot of people for many reasons. How about the idea of an online KPLUG meeting? Using VOIP to conf bridge, and something like webex for showing the presentation? Not sure on all the details to implement, but it could be an option to reach a greater amount of members. This would eliminate the sponsors, physical location plus it could all be recorded for members that couldn't attend online. -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
