On 02/02/07, Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hardly any of us are anywhere in particular. ALUG is the closest approximation to organised cohesion likely to be found for scores of miles in any direction.
Ah, interesting point. If there were only LUGs for Norwich/Ipswich/Colchester, I can see how that might discriminate a bit, given the large number of little places there are in East Anglia.
If it's OK by the people on this list, go to the page that lists Tony Dietrich,
I'll wait until I've finalised the plan, but I'll be happy to do that if we join the collective. :)
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
well, yes, but lug.org.uk would offer the same sort of thing and once a mailing list and wiki has been configured, I don't think there'd be much maintenance hassle.
- 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.
I'm not sure how much pressure I want to put on others to play with the websites and stuff so I thought I'd leave that a while - I'll let ppl volunteer as they want. For a start, I just want to arrange a mailing list and a wiki page we can publicise and build on. I'm not adverse to integration with the ALUG but I want to make sure our focus remains fairly local ...
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...
A fair point. If there were regular meets locally, I wouldn't have posted! :) That said, I know most of the people I have bullied into attending for the next 3 meets aren't that interested in Norfolk and further-afield based events, so I don't want to put them off by making them receive notifications for events they're not interested in attending.
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).
Hah, well ... after a suitable voting period, we've come up with:
iPlug
which jumps on the IPcity and Apple iPod bandwagons at the same time AND could well result in some fantastic logo designs if we find a suitable artist. :) I'm not convinced a penguin on a horse beats that ... hehe
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.
Well, after what I've read so far, I'd be happy if it were possible for us have a sub-page in an ALUG wiki* which we could perhaps point to using a CNAME DNS record (probably from lug.org.uk) so that we could publicise it locally. The only point I'm not sure on is the list - I need to go back and ask those who've shown an interest already and see what they'd prefer. If they're happy using the ALUG mailing list, that's fine ... but I don't want to make that decision without consulting them.
* Though I haven't investigated, is the current wiki as flexible as say MediaWiki? It seems quite slim at first glance.
Are you planning to host porn and spam or something else we wouldn't want?
Sure, isn't that the reason everyone runs linux? To get better performance for shovelling out their pr0n spam? :)
Peter.