Tracy R Reed wrote:
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?
Gee... Meetings oriented towards newbies with a bunch of seasoned
experienced KPLUG guys standing around with nothing to do?
I wonder how they got to be seasoned and experienced?
I am sure no one helped explain things to them when they were starting
out. Their experience and knowledge probably popped fully formed into
their heads one day while they were busy standing around making fun of
people who were not as smart as they were.
Advertising is another thing, someone mentioned lower attendance at the
meetings. There has to be a way to get more advertising out there for
the meetings. San Diego based web sites, free add in maybe the Reader and
other similar publications? I'm not sure where the group advertises outside of
Computer Edge.
This is the most important, IMHO. We used to get lots of people from
Computer Edge. This is how I found KPLUG too, many years ago. But
everyone has gone online now. Computer Edge is but a thin ghost of its
former self. I never read it anymore. I go online. As does just about
anyone else into Linux. Maybe Google Adwords to draw people to the KPLUG
website?
Or, just a thought here, maybe you would get more people interested in
attending if they actually felt welcome? You know, radical things like
actually listening to what they say instead of dismissing out of hand
what they try to contribute. It is great to be in an exclusive club but
when you make it difficult to join the club then your membership
dwindles and pretty soon all you are doing is stroking each others egos
and wondering why people don't think as highly of you as you think of
yourselves.
I also believe that advertising the meetings in non-computer
publications might help attendance.
Are you aware of any appropriate non-computer publications? Can you get
us into them? That would be great!
Maybe you need to turn your perspective around. There are people who are
teaching computers and Linux in schools and non-traditional venues.
These are sources of people who have shown an above average interest in
Linux. How many of those Instructors are telling their students about
KPLUG and encouraging them to get involved? How many KPLUG members are
doing that instructing? Why aren't those students beating down the doors
to join KPLUG?
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