Point taken Derek!
Best, Peter
On 18/11/2014 19:13, Jason Davies wrote:
I think you replied to the wrong message;)
You have no idea how much complication I saved you all from on this
front. The simplistic version is this: many other MUG leaders think
there is a kind of formula which involves meeting up regularly and
having promotional talks etc (I went to a couple for LMUG before i
left that asylum). This also requires membership validation for eg
entry and discounts, which are usually not amazing. This requires
membership fees, say a fiver a year, which creates enormous
administrative overload for very little gain in my view.
Seeing as this followed the migration to google groups, which was not
easy and flummoxed plenty of people (including me), when this came
round I said 'no thanks, we're good'. Which led to a lot of emails
with people-who-clearly-have-too-much-time-on-their-hands saying we
/ought/ to have this and that, because that's what they do. In the end
(confession time, no-one knew this outside that circle!) I threatened
to form a breakaway MUG as they are to all intents and purposes a
self-designated category these days... and they backed down. Apple
does not play much of a role in these groups and seems not to care
about us, not answering emails etc (which is fine by me). But they
don't interfere either, and we are on a list /somewhere/ of official
groups.
I stress all this this was because a) the attempts to have people meet
up here generally don't get that far b) collecting a token amount to
create a category of 'paid-up member' seemed an astonishing amount of
work for about 200 people which I couldn't undertake.
But mainly it was 'this is a great list, don't mess with it'.
I'm no longer the admin but the line was always if people want to
meet, go ahead and organise it here on the list;) I assume it hasn't
changed much (I await the moderator's verdict)
On 18 Nov 2014, at 18:54, ethical.peter wrote:
I didn't know there was a physical aspect to this group?? Please
do enlighten me Derek!
Best, Peter
On 15/11/2014 20:44, Derek Wright wrote:
Thanks for the link
On Friday, November 7, 2014 2:21:03 PM UTC, Paul Owen wrote:
All is explained in this rather useful article:
<http://tidbits.com/article/15216
<http://tidbits.com/article/15216>>
Paul Owen
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