Re: Is this Linux User Group still active?

Thanks for responding.  I was starting to think that there was nobody there.
:-(

I'm up for organizing a new group, but it might be easier to do if we
contacted the previous group organizers and get some pointers and perhaps a
member list if such a thing exists.  In other words, it would probably be
easier to reinvent/revitalize this group rather than trying to start from
scratch.

I'm posting this message to LUNI-D as well so that others on the list can
fill in the blanks as well.

Do you have any contact information concerning the previous organizers?
What sort of attendance did you have before?  If the group was small (under
20 people) we could meet at my office in the loop.  If only 4 or 5 people
were there, we could easily meet in my conference room and talk about
growing the group and getting people involved.

My image for the group would be an organization that met once a month with
an organized intro, followed by a round the room intro of each member
present (what they do, how they use linux, etc.) followed by a 30 minute
talk/lecture (a topic of the day with follow-on open discussion).
Afterwards, we could just hang out and chat... for those that want to
hang-out longer, we could pick a cafe like the 'Gourmande' to move the
discussion to.

I don't want to have a group that has to pay membership dues and gets a
snail-mail newsletter, etc.  I'm more interested in just meeting more people
who have an interest in Linux and the vast assortment of software that is
available to run on it.

If you have the contact info for the previous organizers that would help
greatly.

For now, I'm going to bury my nose in the 'LUG Howto'.

-Kendall


Ron \"I'm cool\" Petty wrote:

> I think this group is about dead, I joined a few months ago and there is
> hardly any traffic.  If you like I can help you start a new group and we
> can make an active downtown group.
>
> Ron