Hi Gareth, That sounds like a great idea. As you've got Reading LUG pretty close, perhaps it might be a good idea to propose to them having a New Users session once every couple of months, and make it part of their usual rotation. Having been involved in trying to organise speakers at a LUG before, if you've got someone coming to you with ideas, that's much better than trying to come up with something or pressuring someone into talking for you :)
If Reading LUG are completely against the idea and you feel the only way to progress is to start your own LUG, then have a quick look at what lug.org.ukcan offer you. All the best -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On Jul 28, 2012 11:41 PM, "Gareth France" <[email protected]> wrote: > Firstly thanks to Alan Bell for a fantastic BBQ today, I think it's safe > to say everyone had a great time and I left feeling rather enthused and > inspired! > > A discussion about how people may get involved without specific technical > skills came up and one of the suggestions was creating some sort of group > meetings in the local area. I have had such ideas for quite a while now and > I'm wondering if it could actually work. I know we've got the Reading LUG > just down the road but as great as those meets are they don't go out of > their way to encourage first time users to come along. I'm thinking perhaps > a regular meet here that's focused on getting people to try it and helping > them through the culture shock might work. Something that could work > alongside or even be considered a satellite to the Reading meet. > > With the Uni in town it shouldn't be hard to get an initial group of > interested people, maybe meeting in the student bar or something and take > it from there. > > All thoughts appreciated. > > Gareth > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
-- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
