On Mon, May 24, 2004, Matthew Davidson wrote: > So I have no alternative but to start one myself. Perhaps this > discussion belongs on slug-chat (to which I am not subscribed), but > I'd welcome any suggestions about how to go about this, or offers of > assistance. I've read the LUG HOWTO, and various other resources on > the web, so Australian-specific advice would be particularly helpful.
I don't object to you having this conversation here, but you could possibly also move it to the SLUG activities list. > Any advice/assistance/personal abuse gratefully accepted. Random advice: - [the LUG HOWTO mentions this one] meet at a regular time so people can plan around it. Take soundings for what is a good day, but don't worry about pleasing all of the people all of the time - don't get too ambitious about the regularity (once a week would be nasty, for example, too much strain on you to organise venue and publicity) - don't get too much into organisational complexity (incorporation, committee, etc etc). If your group takes off to the point of needing to hire space from people you'll probably need to do some of this for insurance reasons, but leave it as a group of people who meet informally as long as you can. This may be a good reason to be under someone else's umbrella. - get in touch with Linux Australia, who can offer you a bunch of stuff, including (I believe) an appropriately sized umbrella ( join their lug list at least: http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/lug ) - [the LUG HOWTO mentions this one] have a website and keep it up to date - you'll have to really work to get the first five people there, and for every five attendees after that too, up to 30 or 40. SLUG draws <70 attendees many months from a huge population base, so plan small I guess. - GLUG recently organised a SLUG trip up north, it could be interesting to do something similar at some point: http://www.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=138 -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
