No offence taken at all Nick. Basically what I meant was exactly what you put more eloquently.
That is, there has not, as far as I understand, been a conscious decision not to have meetings, just that, as you said, we need topics, speakers and attendees. No point having meetings if we do not need them - but if a good opportunity arises then we should jump at it. I converted to Gentoo after Nick's talk, I converted to k3B after Jason's talk, I set up LTSP at home after Chris's talk. If there are newbies out there who "don't know what they don't know" then maybe we could repeat some of the earlier presentations. OR - If the local Linux users are mature enough not to need any more presentations then maybe we have to recognise that as well. Did you know that the $2 shop is having a half price sale at the moment? Rob -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 12:46 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Canterbury Linux Users Group Look we had some discussion at the beginning of the year as to what people wanted. there was no coherent body of opinion as to what was wanted. There was talk of an installfest in March, then April then May. However no-one has actually done anything. (BTW this is not the gentoo installfest being discussed in the last couple of days). This upcoming suse demo by volker is an example of doing something ad-hoc when the need or opportunity arises. To summarise last year, we booked meetings every month. we ran out of people who were prepared to speak at meetings. we ran out of people who wanted stuff fixed at fixit nights. Its pretty tough going organising meetings against those sort of odds. I have personally spoken to at least three meetings (once on email, once on midnight commander, once on gentoo), helped organise the meetings where Martin Baehr and the etherboot guy spoke (sorry forgotten his name momentarily), organised the movie night with revolution OS shown, organised dinner at the 2 fat Indians, spent hours developing a distcc-bootcd for the gentoo installfest last year, and lots of other stuff besides. I don't want a medal, its just that its disappointing when we run out of speakers, and run out of people who want to turn up to workshops. There are plenty of people out there who do lots, probably more than me. If people are upset at the lack of meetings they should get off their ass and organise it. like Rik is. Good on you Rik. (Robert this email isn't aimed at you, I just happened to reply at your point in the thread)
