<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/09/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Kolb</b> <<a href="mailto:gllug@eco.li">gllug@eco.li</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:14:29PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:<br>> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:50 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:<br>> > how much of that do you think is organisational issue bound rather than resource
<br>> > bound ?<br>><br>> I think it's both.<br>><br>> It's generally no longer possible to have speakers who appeal to a wide<br>> enough audience (with very few 'celebrity' exceptions) and I think this
<br>> has been the case for quite some time now.<br>><br>> GLLUG does appear to have a bit of an organisational void at the moment.<br>> Is there anyone actually taking responsibility for sorting out new<br>> meetings now?
<br><br>Not properly. I am, again, working on getting something organised. At the<br>moment I'm too busy to organise anything more regularly, and I'm also at the<br>wrong end of the country, which hinders efforts somewhat.
<br><br>I have, at the last Gllug meeting, asked for volunteers who'd be interested in<br>giving a talk, and for volunteers to help organise future Gllug meetings.<br>No-one came forward.<br><br>Dan<br></blockquote></div>
<br>Sounds like the exact same reason why Gorden Brown is the current prime minister... "because nobody else wanted the job......" <br><br>Maybe we should plan a big Uk Linux conference in London.<br><br><br><br>
Peter.<br><br><br>