There have been a lot of suggestions.... but no action! Dinner was great, but....
So what are we doing: Are we going to have an AGM this year ?. Are we going to elected a committee ?. Are we going to have _any meetings_ at all ?. Or are we _NOT_ going to have a Linux User Group with meetings at all ?. Installfests, workshops, tech talks: What direction we go can be decided on at an AGM and later meetings. Nick Elder wrote: > It has been roughly a year since CLUG had a general meeting. At that meeting > I was very keen to see CLUG get organised with a committee and have elected > officers to run the committee.... But to my disappointment no one became > responsible for anything, as it was decided to have a committee with no one > elected for particular tasks. Rik Tindall wrote: > Without the meetings (& going monthly showed CLUG's maturity), we have > much less in the way of ongoing newbie support. Without visible newbie > support, Linux on the public stage is probably sunk. Where else will it > come from on the scale necessary to make Linux a competing desktop OS? > Is this a good thing? I think not. > * I volunteer to contact the Sydenham hall & book this years' meeting > times, if so agreed/directed by the list/committee. * > Perhaps the 'problem' of CLUG bureaucratisation is easily solved: > The List runs the List. > The committee runs the meetings (& is elected by the meetings) on behalf > of the List. > * If you ever need a set of minutes for a meeting I volunteer for that > too. * > ....... > Seems it it time, again (annually), here & now, to: > "Formally propose - formation of the Canterbury Linux Community Trust." > All those in favour, please say Aye. Aye > All those against, please say No. > User development will be a lot easier for CLUG with this under its belt. Paul William wrote: > Why don't we have a simple online voting system? Each user who has > posted in the last year gets emailed a randomly generated ID/password > when they vote the id is deleted. Why don't we ?. To vote on: To have monthly meetings or not. To have an elected committee or not. Nick Rout wrote: > ... what do we want? more tech talks? demos (a la Jason's > talk on multimedia) ? installfests? workshops? > come on people, ideas/directions! its your group. John Carter wrote: > Way back when when the moon was young, a small "Amateur Computer Club" > started up a yearly computer expo. At the time it's emphasis was "ooh > looky, what neat things these micros can do." > It was _very_ successful. > .......... > Such an expo shouldn't be purely a Linux thing, but a demo of the fun > things that _are_ being done with computers, program languages, embedded > systems, DSP's, FPGA's, Robotics, Biotec... in the Canterbury area. > The emphasis should be on fun and excitement, not Linux. I'm sure as a > result of that emphasis Linux will feature heavily... Douglas Royds wrote: > The benefit of a formal installfest comes from the publicity it (i.e. we, the CLUG) > generate - posters and emails and "Hey, just bowl along with your PC" do a lot > more than just get people in to the installfest, they raise the Linux profile > overall. Also, they sow the idea that there is a community here, and installing > Linux is something anyone can do, as there is help available. > Perhaps the installfest could be combined with John Carter's return to a > computer expo that is actually fun. Hoping for some positive action Trevor
