On 2003-11-28 11:44:36 +0000 adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
A quick look through my archives seem to suggest 30% of postings on applications although slanted towards setting them up, 30% towards hardware and 30% towards free software related issues, hosting co. recommendations, diversions from technical talk etc. (and i know it adds up to only 90% :))
Interesting. I don't compile statistics from the archive that often myself. A casual glance towards the list seems to show very few cases where people are actually discussing uses of GNU/Linux. I wonder: do people not find any problems or interest with that, or do they just give up and email forever after getting the basics installed?
Do we need to offer some compelling reasons to attend?
Free beer?
Kind of tricky when we keep meeting with bars. Would have been useful on Sunday, though ;-)
Should we go further and effectively split the group geographically?
Lets try and build meetings in particular locations more often, and try and not let them clash. I still don't think splitting the mailing list will necessarily help, but having seperate area groups pages on the website maybe with links to the list?
I've tried to do this with area pages now. Any contributions for the different area pages are welcome, especially links to projects. Maybe the links to the list need to be more obvious? I also need to add a web form to the site. For information, I'm probably aiming K.Lynn meetings at "Wednesday after the 13th" in each month, so next one is Wednesday 17th. All welcome (...and yes, I've changed the car directions.)