Re: [activities] Re: Introducing... iSLUG 2.0!
Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.user-groups.slug.festivities |
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| Organization | Ramin Communications |
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Blindraven wrote: > 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? IMHO the Friday night SLUG meetings are a bit full on. Maybe moving onto different venues (ie pizza/pubs/restaurants) for BoFs could work...or maybe I am suggesting a mobile linux BoF? > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 2009/10/14 Robert Collins <[email protected] > <mailto:[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. > > > -- > Bring choice back to your computer. > http://www.linux.org.au/linux > -- > SLUG Activities > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- Marghanita da Cruz http://ramin.com.au Tel: 0414-869202 -- SLUG Activities Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html