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[Andy Copland]

How many people are there in the Scarborough lug at the moment?

Andy

2008/8/1 Al Girling <al at gcguk.demon.co.uk>

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 10:05:44AM BST, John Allsopp wrote:
> >
> > >I'm not sure where the social element of LUG meetings will go - across
> > >the country they sound like they only succeed in some pockets.
> > >
> > >
> > So where's this feeling that LUGs are becoming less popular coming from.
> > Al, you said it (first). What are the experiences of other LUGs, are
> > they dropping off too?
>
> I think it's more a seasonal thing than a general lack of Linux
> interest.
>
> I went to the York social meeting this week and considering it's a
> university city with a potentially large Linux user population there
> were only six of us.
>
> It's quite obvious with the Ryedale LUG that winter time gets more
> people coming to meetings.  The Beverley LUG has always been very quite,
> but I've not heard from them for months now.
>
> I'm convinced that the numbers attending meetings reflect the enthusiasm
> of those who organise them.  I subscribe to the Sussex LUG list and
> their meeting this week had almost twenty attending, but they usually
> have at least one talk or presentation of some description per meet.
> This isn't to say that SLUG should go down the route of monthly meets
> with presentations at each meet.  It's been tried before and there aren't
> enough people here to make it happen.
>
> There might be some mileage in the facebook/bebo/etc idea.  Personally I
> think they're the spawn of satan, but accept that lots of people use
> them, so they could well bring more people to the LUG.  At the end of
> the day the LUG has to provide something for them, if they see that as
> being just going to the pub and chatting with a bunch of folks with
> pointy heads and hand woven sandles then they're unlikely to turn up.
>
> The most successful groups seem to be those who mix social and technical
> meets.  Somewhere to bring machines for fault solving and displays work
> well it seems.
>
> Toodle pip,
>
> Al
>
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