Re: Meetings and all things morlug.

David makes a great point, and it leads into another.

MorLUG used to be a great community of people, and we had a lot of  
fun at and after meetings. The IRC channel used to be alive and full  
of people chatting all hours of the night on not only linux related  
topics, but everyday things.

I think one of the strong factors of what made MorLUG so great in the  
early days was the community of people that hung out and became  
friends. Currently our thing is to head down to BW3s for some wings  
and beer and shoot the breeze and talk tech stuff. If you don't make  
a meeting, look for us down there.

I think the meetings should be just that, meetings where we have a  
speaker and/or topics at hand. But we also need events.

Installfest (originally scheduled for October 4th, now needs to be  
moved to a later date.)
Lan party (November 4th ... this needs to start being advertised NOW.  
not everyone reads minutes)
Movie Night (December 9th)

And the IRC channel. Login and hang out, even if it is just to idle.  
Talk with new people, meet some friends. If you plan on heading to  
the Blue Moose or somewhere else shoot a message to #MorLUG and let  
people know, someone might show up and have a coffee/juice with ya.

Make use of the wiki. If you are working on linux projects post them  
on the wiki or a link to them if you have the pages on another server.

IRC: #morlug on freenode
web: http://morlug.org

Mike.
[email protected]




On Sep 28, 2006, at 11:43 AM, David A. Riggs wrote:

> On 9/28/06, Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> If I were to single out the main point of what Thomas suggests I  
>> would say that our prime objective is to promote Linux. No matter  
>> how informative or entertaining we can make our meetings for  
>> ourselves it does not really make our group stronger. After all, I  
>> can get all the technical info I need from the web or from this  
>> mailing list, or from linux magazines.
>>
>
>
> Andrei, while advocacy and promotion are good things, I think you have
> a serious misunderstanding of the issue at hand...
>
> Morgantown has a *lot* of real live Linux users. Seriously. The reason
> that MorLUG meetings are empty is not because there is a shortage of
> Linux users. People don't come to MorLUG meetings because people don't
> *want* to come to MorLUG meetings.
>
> Meetings need to compel users to attend. Bradley Kuhn of the FSF, Jeff
> Dike's UML, Warren's Mepis, Dave Smith's giant thin-client lab,
> somebody's (?) embedded Linux boxen... these are things that drew
> people. The meeting should be an event, not just some scheduled thing
> that happens every 4 weeks.
>
> The second factor, as Mike Bond said, is to plan the meetings in
> advance and promote them. You must let people know what is going on,
> don't expect them to check out the website every 30 days or join the
> mailing list - advertise the meeting, not the group.
>
> - DR
>
> -- 
> David A. Riggs <[email protected]>
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