MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
I want the lurkers to speak up. We have 250 addresses getting copies of this. Even if we assume that all the meeting venues get different people (definitely untrue IMO), that means we only see about three dozen of them to talk with. How do we get the other seven-eighths involved?
I'm an inveterate lurker, although not 100%, as I have posted to the list occasionally usually when I need help. So why don't I offer help? My biggest problem is my memory! Not very good. I find that I can often manage to get something working under Linux that has turned out not to be straightforward then I see a posting on ALUG from someone trying to do the same thing that I did 6 months ago. But having been using it for sixth months I have no idea now how or what I did then and by the time I've done a little pondering there are 5 answers on the list anyway.
I have never been to a meeting as, generally, they are too far away from me (between Colchester and Maldon). I remember one was scheduled to be held at the University at Colchester at a time that I couldn't attend. There hasn't been one since. I have sometimes thought of trying to arrange one at my local village hall although access would be by car only and I not sure that many members would want to go so far south.
I don't like the idea of a name/title change. I like it as it is and can't see any point in changing it.
ALUG is doing a lot better than ELUG which appears to be dormant at the very least and possibly dead.
Great grief! I don't think I have ever posted so many words at one time. Where on earth did they all come from?
(MJ Ray - Thanks for the hosting tip and I've disabled the numbering in replies)
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain