gossamer axe wrote:
If you want to get new users to Linux, more of the meetings need to be
more
newbie oriented.
What will the experienced guys (most of kplug these days) do during the
meetings?
Ok, so that was a bad idea. My sincerest apologies.
Not a bad idea at all. No apology necessary.
KPLUG is grappling with the same issues that *every* club is grappling
with. Attendance is down *across the board for everything*.
Part of it is simply that there is more resource available than there
used to be. If you we doing something technical in 1988, you needed
user's groups and their publications. High-speed network connections
were still relatively rare (several friends used old college accounts of
mine until about 1994) and searching the web or Usenet was painful--if
the information was even there.
People forget about the bad, old days prior to Dejanews or Altavista or
Google ...
Nowadays, if you have a questions, somebody online has *already* asked
that question. And probably gotten an answer.
In addition, the economy sucks. People are busy with day to day stuff
and don't necessarily have time for a any particular group. And, while
I like coming to KPLUG meetings, we don't seem to have many people from
"industry" that would make it a good networking opportunity for people
at the start of their careers.
-a
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Who lately has been Googling questions and too often finding that he has
already asked the same question years ago. ... And the question still
doesn't have an answer.
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