Rick Carlson wrote: > 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? >
I just changed the subject line so it doesn't dilute the targeted discussion of SDCS policies and SDCS future. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
