On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Del wrote:
> Grant Parnell wrote: > >>I totally agree, this is a time for SLUG to regroup and refocus. > > > Actually... thinking about that, maybe it's a time to de-group and > > re-focus. SLUG is too general. It's like having a "car users group" in > > that it covers too many people with vastly differing interests. I guess > > Ken spelled it out by suggesting a coders group. > > Although I realise that Grant was being (at least mostly) humourous, > I can agree with some of the underlying sentiments. > > Perhaps SLUG needs to have more SIGs and more meetings with just the > special interest groups involved in each one. e.g we now have a > Debian sig, maybe we need a techo/hobbyist/programmer SIG and a I think it would be a pity of SLUG fragmented. I'm sure I'm like many people. I use Linux for a number or tasks and run into lots of varied problems. What would inevitably happen is that I would end up joining lots of seperate mailing lists and get the same information I get now. OTOH, sig's are a fantastic idea in that if you have a particular need or interest you can focus on that, but within the umbrella of SLUG. As a non-expert, I find it difficult to give back to SLUG what I get out of it. I wonder how many others are in the same position, and what, if anything they can do about it. Regards, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
