On 4/15/2008 4:03 PM, Tracy R Reed 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.
What I was thinking (but neglected to say) was, to attract more people
to Linux have meetings (maybe a bit more like lectures plus Q&A)
separately from the regular KPLUG meetings. Those could be at community
centers, not necessarily at SDCOE. North County might be a possibility
too. Possibly some public schools might make rooms available for this
kind of community outreach.
I wasn't thinking of anything regular, but do a few to see what the
response is like. Then revise the plan as needed.
Karl
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