James Polley wrote:
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, jon <[email protected]> wrote:
"As of March, we have 37 financial members.
Please note that "As of March" refers to "immediately prior to the
AGM". As of the AGM the number is now (if I'm recalling correctly) 25.
Perhaps we need to focus on the 700 or so SLUG list members.
I sent in my membersip money by snailmail, because I find
the SLUG mailing list valuable and if SLUG didn't exist the
mailing list wouldn't exist.
With regard to meetings, while Perth may be a bit far to
cater for...perhaps meetings at different venues around
Sydney could be useful. With the increased use of linux, I
think SLUG is more important than ever.
If there is still a slot on the committee...perhaps someone
who would like to take on organising meetings at a second
venue may like to step forward.
As a user, my 2c worth is I would like to attend an hour of
short 10-20 min talks - which keep me informed about what is
happening in the sydney relating to linux. A break out for
catching up with the speaker, of particular interest, over
pizza would be good. Though my preference would be for
Thursday night.
Online would be more convenient though. CCing committee
list because
that's something I'd like us to look into (actually, I
think I heard
Neil muttering about this already).
I don't want to alienate the technical gurus, but I
suspect that over the
next five years or so there will be increasing numbers
of people in the same
situation that I am. So if you are looking for ways to
promote SLUG, that's
my two cents' worth. Right now it all seems very
technical and insular.
*checks timestamp* No, this really was written today.
It's interesting you say that, because we've already lost
a lot of the
Old Guard for precisely this reason - they feel we've
drifted too far
in this direction for them to be interested any more.
The message I get from this is that we are currently
trying to serve a
very diverse audience, and failing to serve any of it
very well.
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I don't know if this is the place to raise this, but as a new member I can
think of two things that might help:
1. Make it possible to obtain and renew membership online -- or even by
snailmail -- rather than having to physically attend a meeting (right now,
for instance, I'm not a member because I don't get into town when the
meetings are on).
It's already possible to do so by snailmail, and 4% of current members
availed themselves of this.
http://wiki.slug.org.au/activeconstitution has the rules for becoming
a member in the section "APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP". The address to
send your snail mail is listed on http://slug.org.au/contacts.html.
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