[Liverpool] Administrivia

[Dan Lynch]

Thanks for the update Bob. I think it makes sense to share out
responsibilities and let other people get involved as/when they want. It
also removes the burden from one single person and makes it easier for them.

I'd actually been thinking about the situation with the website just
recently and wanted to discuss fixing it. This was prompted by someone
asking me for details about LivLUG and having to explain that our website
doesn't work right now. That can't be right for a group of geeks like us,
it's embarrassing.

We should be using resources like this to help new people find us and get
involved. Right now it's difficult for people to find meetings. I know we
have the mailing list but that's just one channel and I think we need to
offer more options. I'm willing to help out with this as much as I can. Take
a turn making announcements, build up the website, maintain it and share any
other jobs.

I think Doof (Andrew Williams) is coming along this month. At least that's
what he said to me the other day. So it'll be great to see him if it
happens.

I can see what you mean about worries that this looks like some sort of
coup. I don't think it's like that at all, there is no animosity or desire
to be "the leader" here as you said. There are just jobs that need to be
done in running a proper LUG, and I'll do my shift. Anyone else is welcome.

This is beginning to ramble on so I'll leave it at that. Maybe we could all
discuss this at the meeting on Wednesday. Decide how we want to go forward.

I'll see you all there hopefully :)

Dan


On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been Doing Things :-)  I attended the monthly meeting of the
> Liverpool Social Centre and I'll send a separate email about that.  I've
> also taken the liberty of stepping up as our contact with lug.org.uk,
> taking over from Andrew Williams.  Here you can see the information they
> hold about us:
>
>  http://lug.org.uk/node/82
>
>
> I've also asked them to set us up with a website of our own using their
> servers:
>
>  http://liv.lug.org.uk/
>
> (I know Simon set one up before, but that had the problem of depending
> on one particular person.  After the disappearance of the website that
> Andrew Williams set up, I thought it prudent to use a service that
> doesn't depend on the commitment of any particular member.  Of course,
> if people disagree, we can just as easily use Simon's :-)
>
> For the moment, the above link just points to a wiki.  Anyone can edit
> that.  We also have the facility to use static HTML/CSS/JS files as well
> (not PHP though unfortunately).  I'm not much of a web designer but if
> someone else wants to put together a more aesthetic page using static
> HTML, feel free :-)
>
>
> I'd like to say something about how I see my position as I wouldn't want
> anyone to get confused.  I've never been comfortable with a designated
> leader in a LUG.  As I see it, the LUG is all of the members and making
> decisions with a group consensus is simple and practical enough.
>
> I have taken on the responsibility of liaising with lug.org.uk and with
> the Liverpool Social Centre.  However, I specifically am *not* claiming
> any title of "leader" or the like.  In fact, I would very much prefer as
> much redundancy as possible and for responsibility to be shared as wide
> as possible :-)
>
>
> Bob
>
> --
> Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>
>
> for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
>
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