Re: [activities] Advertising SLUG

Samuel Marks wrote:

> Good Evening,
> 
> >From what our President has been saying, SLUG seems to be going
> downhill (in numbers).
> 
> I believe this is due to a problem in marketing.

I don't think so.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s SLUG thrived with no more
or no less advertising than it has now.

Back then, the reason I went to SLUG was because SLUG had a stream
of good speakers presenting on topics I was interested in. At that
time about 50% of attendees were developers or advanced Linux users.
SLUG meetings now consist mostly of users, with the developers
moving to the Python, Ruby, Javascript and Functional Programming
groups.

The secret to a strong user group is to provide presentations that
are interesting to other people who are sufficiently advanced to 
also present.

Erik
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