On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:53, Carl Cerecke wrote: > How many "MS Windows" meetings are held in Chch? (Ones organised by the > users only, not some Corporate) Well, most medium-sized computer-equipped offices function as self-help user groups for Windows. It's the small businesses with only one computer that suffer ...
> There is, I think, an apple users group > that meets regularly. But that only helps to prove my point :-) Apple Users Group of Canterbury meets monthly, has a turn-out of around 50 people each meeting, a paid-up membership of more than double that, a monthly newsletter, a 'net-connected bulletin board system that gateways with a very large Australian Apple Users Group, a public mailing list and a healthy bank balance assisted by careful applications to grants authorities for things like VGA Projectors, &c. However, helping to prove Carl's point, it is very much a collection of people trying to _use_ their machines, not particularly to understand the inner workings. > 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. There seems to be a perception that because "there is a Users Group", that it should have some responsible people to "organise things". But we know that's not true ... Anyway, how does a beginner organise a beginner's help session? I've seen mutually-reinforcing beginners try to learn things, they end up like Skinner's pidgeons, reinforcing all sorts of odd ideas. I don't like to see that ... -jim
