Every group has its Problems… But I am glad to see, that you are trying to move on, and what I can see from the distance, you do a really good job!
Janosch Am 24.03.2011 21:20, schrieb Kizito Thomas: > Dear Members, > Allow me to present the points noted in a meeting between some members > of the steering group of Lug_Mbarara chapter, held on 22/03/2011. > > After talking to Simon on the forum(Mbarara forum), many members > responded to the activities of the group which is a nice sign of getting > back to the road of the group (Introducing and Maintaining a Linux User > group in Mbarara), from the call for the meeting run by Phaisal, Four > members (Mugonza, Phaisal, Bruce and Me) attended with one late apology > from some one who was supposed to spear head the meeting. We however > failed to get in touch with the secretary of the group which made it > hard to make a follow up of the past group activities. > > From a small agenda that consisted of 1) Opening Prayer, 2) > Communications from members which included problems for stalled > movements, 3) Way forward which was about forging a way out of the > problems identified and setting up a working system, 4) Any other > Business (AOB) and Finally a Closing prayer. > > The meeting started at exactly 17:34 with a prayer from Bruce and as the > rule goes, Mugonza was charged with refreshments for the meeting for > coming late. > > It was really a nice meeting were the few members that attended showed > signs of commitment and zeal to move on with a small working User group. > Members were quick to identify the problems by trying to refresh minds > of what so far we had achieved and the different presentations made. > Among other things members noted that people in Mbarara (/students in > particular since up to now we are only working with students/) had a > tendency of being excited by some thing new brought by some one new and > after few trials they usually pull out---although still members noted > that from this system there was hope to retain some few members who > really come with commitment. Members also noted that among the causes of > failure to have people migrating was presenting (Linux Presentations) in > a Laboratory that was powered by Windows Xp (/With enough facebooking > during the presentations/) save for the people who have laptops > (/Usually three or two and these are the people presenting/). We > realised that it was hard for someone to try some thing if they still > had the safe heavens in Windows. On this note members decided to bring > on board system administrators of the university (/thank God we managed > to talk to two interested system Admins as the meeting was going on/) > who would for the start, identify and dual boot a particular lab > specific for the Lug cause. As a way of finding points of weakness and > strength, members tried to figure out what had caused the success of the > previous presentation to my surprise all members came to conclude that > it was brought about by the massive publicity which now we missed due to > the busy schedule of our publicity secretary who cannot even delegate > duties. On this note members decided to have another publicity secretary > (/who is yet to be announced/) with a less work load and also continue > with a small committed group for gradual but steady growth. > > > After realising that most of the presentations so far had in mbarara > were intro presentations and installations, people who managed to follow > up with them felt that they knew enough linux, (/by Installation, > playing some few Multimedia files then doing some word processing/) sat > back and relaxed. Members noted that we needed to find a way of > challenging these people who were not supposed to attend any more > installation and introduction sessions by having two parallel > presentation for the two different groups. Members further noted that > there was some sort of rigidity in terms of a presentation venue and a > minimum number to start a presentation, but steps were put in place to > stop this tendency. We resolved to have a presentation no matter what is > going on in our default lab and no matter the number of people available > although with some sort of communication in case people come to the > default lab and find some thing different. As you might note the hottest > point of the day was publicity we planned to have an extra time on this > point in terms of presentation preparation. > Some of the way forwards that were not answering questions directly, > members came up with, included among others; > > Mugonza was supposed to find a way of bringing on lecturers(in > particular lecturers in technology) but am yet to check the mailing list > to find who have been added. I also remember Mugonza was tasked to add > the two system Admins who had showed interest to the mailing list, but > we are still wondering whether internet went off in Mugonza's office. > > Bruce asked us to find a planned way of spending the moneys so far on > his account before we obtain more because even the DVDs which were > bought had never been distributed. On this, members decided to > distribute DVDs powered with Ubuntu (/I dont know which one though/) on > the next meeting. > > In more resolutions, members were asked to identify serious members to > take up tasks on the steering group to take the thing forward (/Phaisal > I hope you never forgot, as I cannot see any new name on the list/). > Since final year projects were cited as the major cause of absentism, > members decided to only attract new members to the university who still > have some time on their belts. Finally Phaisal was asked to give his > prepared presentation on the 29/03/2011. > > People in Kampala you will note that we only use meetings to come up > with a compromise in Mbarara unlike the way things are done on the main > Lug ( /where a number of Mails are used to decide on a given matter for > example a venue and topic of presentation) /because internet access to > some members is still a night mare. It is still hard to even discuss a > topic on the Mbarara Chapter mailing list because no one will respond to > a problem /(if your lucky some few people will respond after accessing > internet-cafe-internet/). We don't know how to work around this problem > but in the meetings members acknowledged that this was a problem beyond > the arms of Lug and Linux at large and accepted defeat. > > Simon you are specifically targeted by this mail, although little has > been mentioned of your support, because of your shown desire to see > Mbarara Chapter Moving and I also call on all Members of Lug_Kampala to > advise this young group which is at a risk of collapsing. Lug Mbarara > Chapter welcomes any sort of support from any one to see that Linux in > part and component of the University daily system. > > Forgive me for being verbosive, but I think It was called for. > > Thank you very much! > > ................................................................................................................................................ > /Seat of Wisdom .............Pray for us <http://>/ > /Cause of our Joy ...........Pray for us <http://>/ > .................................................. > Kizito Thomas > +256-712-929564 > +256-782-062708 > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. -- Janosch Maier <[email protected]> -- http://phynformatik.de This E-Mais is signed via GnuPG <http://gnupg.org/>. My public key: 0xEB21B1DE
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