[Bradford] Just wondering....

[John R Hudson]

Hi David

I don't really think we need to justify our existence by how much individuals 
or we as a group put back in. My sense is that quite a lot of members put 
stuff back in in a variety of ways and my fear would be that publicising this 
would put off potential new members who might think that this was an 
expectation of membership.

Years ago Richard Titmuss did a study of blood donation and he came to the 
conclusion that the most successful blood donation service in the world is 
ours - in part because it is anonymous. No body knows who gave the blood that 
saved them; it is a private gift to an anonymous recipient.

If members wanted we could have a look at the different ways in which people 
can contribute but I wouldn't see any value in going further than that.

John
-- 
On Wednesday 6 October 2010 09:10:38 David Carpenter wrote:
> I was just thinking about how BradLUG contributes to 'Linux' in terms of
> putting something back in.
> 
> I think having a 'BradLUG' is one way, but was just wondering if there
> are others, and if so, if it's worth publicising (I'm just thinking page
> on the website).
> 
> I guess part of what I'm wondering is if people actually make
> contributions to a distro, community posts, code, spread linux. Maybe
> there's a kind of social audit that LUGs could do to demonstrate how
> they/individuals are helping?
> 
> Perhaps something to research, comment on, create a forum post about..
> 
> By the way, I've been a bit slack following up on all the stuff from the
> last meeting, but I intend to try to work through all that stuff in the
> next few days.
> 
> Cheers
> David