# For the most part people talk about what they have been dealing with # recently at meetings, and when they don't talk about what those # things are in the mailing list it becomes a gamble as to whether or # not you will find them interesting.
Yeah, that makes sense. No continuity. # Worst case scenario you have a bunch of newbs, who are mostly # interested in things most of us conquered years ago. AFAICT most LUGs deal with this "problem", insofar as it affects the range of topics discussed. Some LUGs claim to be "new-user-friendly", albeit at the risk of boring the more experienced. At any rate, you might want to refrain from using terms like "worst case" and "newbs" if you have any aspirations of attracting new membership. # Jonathan's idea for a hackfest seems to combine all three quite # nicely, and if done well could draw lots of attendance. Thanks. This is one reason why I brought it up, as I figured it might be a nice revival of sorts. The other reason is that I enjoyed it in Athens and wondered if we could do it here, too. # Another possibility is listing things we want to talk about, and # voting for the best ones to be opening topics days before the # meeting so we know ahead of time if it is a meeting we want to # bother attending. Yeah; the typical method of trying to find speakers on $some_topic and hoping there's interest is somewhat backwards in my opinion. It'd be better to let existing interest or desire drive the effort to find speakers or presenters or chatters or egomaniacs on specific topics. It's also possible that without new people to bring up new topics, we have a stalemate in which interests and occupations aren't changing enough to warrant any new discussion. :) -- Jonathan Daugherty http://www.parsed.org _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
