It's probably worth seeing if we could meet at meet at one colleges see what response we get.. UCSD might be better since there is more students who are likely to be OSS oriented.
----- Original Message ---- From: Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <kplug-list@kernel-panic.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:51:32 PM Subject: Re: SDCS project suggestion 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. I'm not convinced this is really a good improvement: 1) A lot of students are very apathetic about clubs in general. 2) A lot of students are very busy 3) A lot of students are taking classes at the exact time that we would want to hold a meeting 4) Parking at SDSU is annoying if you are a non-student. (Mass transit is a non-starter for anybody North of about Aero to SDSU). 5) The rooms you will get aren't that great. Any college that actually has Linux folks to be reached out to probably already has its own LUG or similar. If you really want to target a college, I would target Mesa or Miramar rather than SDSU or UCSD. Mesa and Miramar have a demographic that would be a better demographic for Linux. -a -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
