The ones arranged for 6 May and 30 June (optional) are available for CLUG to utilise as it sees fit. Maybe they won't fly at all. But if Volker remains willing to guide us through some new material, then we do have a start for stimulating interest.
Carl Cerecke wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
The public meetings give newbies a chance to 'suck&see' Linux.
The loss of public meetings is a loss to Linux advocacy.
Simple?
yes.
Do I agree? Maybe; maybe not.
The loss of public meetings reflects a disinterest in organising them, most likely stemming from the difficulty getting them organised. As Linux gets more popular, more mainstream, meetings may well decrease.
True, but is this the cause? My experience of userworld & Linux is that its main obstacle is that nobody* has heard of it.
*=General public.
Expansion of the userbase to the point of common knowledge is certainly what we want.
How many "MS Windows" meetings are held in Chch? (Ones organised by the users only, not some Corporate). There is, I think, an apple users group that meets regularly. But that only helps to prove my point :-)
Any member of this list is free to organise their own Linux-related meeting and advertise it on the list. No one will stop you. Before anybody laments the loss of public Linux meetings, they should organise at least a handful.
Cheers, Carl.
Waikato is looking like a better place to be for Linux learners: http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2004-02-18
Regards, Rik.
-- InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 2.4.20-8
