My 2 cents, we need to attract professionals and maintain that as a focus to keep them engaged. There is quality of responses on this list ( for the most part ) and our presentations are impressive at the least compared to even the NYC LUGS.
The problem I have personnel run in to when trying to recruit speakers or new members that would be a good fit is our name. They just do not want to deal with Linux zealots. Since we are defining our selves as more then that, we may want a more general name to market with. Now I'm NOT suggesting dropping MHVLUG, but a duel banding that would make MHVLUG a component of a larger professional society or something. Just want to invite people to the MHV technical society to talk or attend. If they have an interest in setting up a Linux server to work on from there new Mac Book Pro, great! We are the perfect fit. But I hate people telling me they don't want to feel out of place at a LUG when they own a Apple or Windows system, we are just NOT about that! I feel this thread has gone on way to long and it seems that we need a special meeting to discuss this since people are defiantly interested. Should we discuss this over dinner or lunch? That is a special meeting not to interfere with our currently planed events. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:53:49AM -0700, Dan Simoes wrote: > > 1) yes to a 2nd list or use of tags. I agree, once conversations are > moved > > there they are probably dead, but it saves me hitting delete :) > > Count me as an anti-tag vote. > > All too often I see tags turn into a bizzare police-state thing where > new users are (sometimes violently) chastised for failure to anticipate > needing one of a dozen obscure tags for every post, leading them to give > up on posting all together. > > I'm very capable of putting my LUG email in its own folder > automatically, and there isn't that much of it. > > I don't think we want to go raising the bar for cost-of-entry for new > users, and I'm not looking forwards to every post having 3 follow-on > posts complaining about lack of / improper use of tags. > > -m > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions > >
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