-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>After several recent conversations with friends and colleges that run<br>Linux but are not interested in the technicalities several things<br>became evident that I thought might be worth sharing with the rest of<br>
you.<br><br>I know several people that are interested in attending our local LUG<br>meetings but are worried that they are not of a significant level of<br>technical ability to be able to join in discussions. I think<br>
this is a miss representation of what the LUG is supposed to be. <br>In the descriptions I've come across the phrase "self help" is used<br>which I think is dead on. I don't think people should be worried<br>
about coming along because of fear that is they do as a question they<br>will be ridiculed for asking / needing help. That seems to be<br>the first hurdle that I've come across in trying to get more people<br>involved with us.<br>
<br>Second is what actually goes on at the meetings, and how they could<br>get involved. I was talking recently about version control in<br>and how I use it for not only coding but also keeping revisions of<br>other files, now he as never come across version control in a<br>
professional context let alone using it to keep revisions of personal<br>information. He suggested that it might be a good way to get<br>more people interested if those of use that use things like that that<br>other people might be interested in could do some small talks or<br>
demonstrations at the meetings to help people get started. I<br>quite liked the idea of it I'm sure as a group we already all have a<br>fair few usability solutions that other people in the group and<br>external to the group would find interesting / useful. <br>
<br>A couple of idea's of what kind of thing the people I have been<br>speaking to are interested in finding out more about with their Linux<br>systems<br><br>*Version control<br>*Backing up<br>*Office replacement software<br>
*Syncing mobile devices<br>*Cross platform compatibility (sharing thumb drives and such I think<br>is what he as asking about)<br>*Data organisation (Photos, Music, Search indexing of documents etc)<br><br>As anyone else had conversations like this? How can we get in<br>
other people and make them feel included in the community and not have<br>them feel like they don't have valid opinions and idea's to offer?<br><br>Cheers<br>Wayne<br><br>- --------------------------------<br>Geeks are people too.<br>
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