[ALUG] Ipswich LUG

[MJ Ray]

samwise <samwise at bagshot-row.org> wrote:
> I found ALUG in my web research, and attempted to email Tony Dietrich
> who is listed as a contact for Ipswich, but the email bounced.
>
> Soo ... does anyone have thoughts they'd like to share?

If it's OK by the people on this list, go to the page that lists Tony
Dietrich, click "Edit Page" delete Tony and put yourself as the
contact.  When you hit Save, it will send the changes to a webmaster
(spammers make running unmoderated too much 'fun'). (The
javascript-based rich editor seems to be offline just now - anyone
know why?)

> I'm particularly interested in what the benefits are of piggy-backing
> on the ALUG, in terms of mailing list and website hosting are ...

The benefits are that great people are already managing them (I'm not
involved in it any more!), so you can concentrate on organising great
meetings - and you have a ready audience for those meetings.  If there
are Ipswich hands available to help run the websites and mailing
lists, then offer on this list and see what happens.

ALUG started in Woodbridge near Ipswich in 1999 (thanks Laurie).
It would be disappointing to see Ipswich fork just because the Suffolk
haven't got a meeting together recently.  Please fix that ALUG bug
before forking the project...

Stay in ALUG and help run one of the oldest and largest LUGs in the
country.  Oh, and you also get one of the best logo *ideas* ever
(which I just added to the FAQ, although reading back in my notes, I
see me blame Adam for it, while James and Keith blame me for it).

> I've had an initial planning meet-up with some of the people I hope to
> get involved, and the general consensus was that we may well prefer to
> take advantage of our own site/mailing list, like a number of the
> other Anglian LUGs.

I can see some argument for running several sites linked from the one
hub, for marketing and management reasons (I've suggested this in the
past, but I think only the library and two planets ever got online on
their own), but I don't see a benefit in split mailing lists yet.  Are
you planning to host porn and spam or something else we wouldn't want?

Regards,
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