> Lets try to grow more this year. I need ideas and help getting the word out.
> I have met people that had no clue there was Linux meetings in the area.
> So I would like to be a bit more pro active of getting more people involved
> in the group.
I looked up my notes on earlier LUG brainstorming, and will add/interlace
some new/updated thoughts ...
A. Events, event booths
1. Technical: SCALE et al.
2. Community/social/general
a. farmers markets: Redlands, LL, Riverside, ...
b. other?
3. Business/organizations: chambers of commerce (have we interest in
joining chambers and the like?), Largest Mixer, et al.
B. College/University networking, liasons, etc.
C. Web directories, links, SEO
1. LUG directories: lalugs.org, http://www.linux.org/groups/
2. web-wide general directories: OpenDirectory <dmoz.org>, etc.
3. local directories: Google Local; Yahoo-free?, listingsus.com,
iebw.com, ...
4. would LUG fit in social-action (socially conscious, digital divide)
directories if there is such
5. Ask all members to link to LUG website, from websites owned by member
(e.g. http://whizman.com/aboutwz.php)
6. Ensure the relevant terms/words in text on LUG website, so we
will get *relevant* search hits
7. IE craigslist.org, inlandempire.backpage.com?
*. Make sure to utilize the free directories - do we have any interest in
anything for which we have to pay?
D. Print media
1. Free event listings - how many of the following have such?:
SB Sun, R.D.Facts, Press/Ent, Reader Mag, Green Sheet, Mad About Redl,
Hometown Vals, etc.
2. Info card the size of a business card, easy to hand out if LUG comes
up in a conversation, post on bulletin boards at coffee shops etc.
*. Would we like to pursue, or like to avoid, sponsorship and/or funding from
local businesses (esp. those in which list members are decision-makers)
?
Linkname: SSLUG - How to get your LUG a success
URL: http://www.sslug.dk/~pto/LUG.html
Linkname: Linux User Group HOWTO
URL: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
~~Randall~~
_______________________________________________
LinuxUsers mailing list
LinuxUsers@socallinux.org
http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
