Re: [activities] Re: Introducing... iSLUG 2.0!

We're an open community. If someone wants to run their own meetings
somewhere else, that's their choice. Our goal, however, is to bring
the communities together. We want people with different interests
talking to each other.


2009/10/14 Blindraven <[email protected]>:
> I think the BoF group is an excellent idea, but a BoF at the Google venue
> seems annoying. Something localised would be better, but I guess it's up to
> people as individuals to do that?
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/10/14 Robert Collins <[email protected]>:
>> > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 09:40 +1100, Scott Finneran wrote:
>> >> Perhaps it's consumer backlash against the product name. You should
>> >> deny that you were trying to
>> >> stir up controversy, adopt a more conventional branding and post again.
>> >>
>> >> Scott
>> >>
>> >> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>> >> > I haven't had any responses to this offer. We are making an attempt
>> >> > to
>> >> > increase community participation in SLUG, but if nobody is interested
>> >> > then we could just scrap the idea.
>> >
>> > I don't think the activities list is a sufficient forum for this.
>> > Consider:
>> > - twittering
>> > - sending to one of the linux-australia lists
>> > - directly contacting some of the SIG's around that are perhaps having
>> > attendance issues - though finding them will be tricky. Possible groups
>> > are sypy, smug, ubuntu-* in sydney etc
>> >
>> > -Rob
>>
>> I wanted to start by soliciting our more involved supporters.
>> Presumably if someone is subscribed to Activities then they're
>> interested in how SLUG is run. I have had better luck from approaching
>> people and groups directly, so this exercise is far from a failure.
>>
>> I must admit, though, that I didn't expect the response on SLUG's own
>> Activities list to be so subdued. We have some community members who
>> do far more than their fair share (Rob is a stellar example), but
>> outside of that small group I'm seeing contribution diminish with
>> time. Our BoFs idea is an effort to reverse that trend.
>>
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