On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooops, > Yet again I find myself at this part of the month having forgotten the > CLUG meeting. > My life is too hectic right now to do this. > > Not sure I can get a speaker now so maybe it's gonna be a short one or > maybe a help session. > > So many apologies and am now looking to pass the baton to someone who > might be able to do a better > job :-/ > > So tomorrow night I will be talking to people about finding speakers > for these meetings.
<rant> I haven't been able to make it to meetings for a while due to clashes with BOT meetings. However the meeting organisation seems to have reached shambles point. Can no one step up to the mark? The CLUG seems to be little more than a joke, mainly due to no one pulling finger and organising anything. There seems to be a dearth of people stepping up to the mark to talk about anything. Where are the commercial linux users in ChCh telling us about how they are helping to change the world? Or are we doomed to a lifetime of talks on home networking, which has been as easy as falling off a log for at least the 10 or more years I have had a home LAN. There is also a shortage of people with the organisational skills to organise 10 simple meetings a year. This is not a dig at Zane. He is one of the few of us who has stepped up to the mark to organise it, but i also know he has a busy family and work life. How about someone young without the family commitments? Or old and without the family commitments? </rant> Perhaps we should flag away the community centre (which always wants a fee) and simply meet once a month at a local imbibery to drink and tell war stories? Except that doesn't help our very young school age members who wouldn't be able to get in the door.
