[Gllug] No Expo this year

[Peter Childs]

On 05/09/07, Dan Kolb <gllug at eco.li> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:14:29PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:50 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > how much of that do you think is organisational issue bound rather
> than resource
> > > bound ?
> >
> > I think it's both.
> >
> > It's generally no longer possible to have speakers who appeal to a wide
> > enough audience (with very few 'celebrity' exceptions) and I think this
> > has been the case for quite some time now.
> >
> > GLLUG does appear to have a bit of an organisational void at the moment.
> > Is there anyone actually taking responsibility for sorting out new
> > meetings now?
>
> Not properly. I am, again, working on getting something organised. At the
> moment I'm too busy to organise anything more regularly, and I'm also at
> the
> wrong end of the country, which hinders efforts somewhat.
>
> I have, at the last Gllug meeting, asked for volunteers who'd be
> interested in
> giving a talk, and for volunteers to help organise future Gllug meetings.
> No-one came forward.
>
> Dan
>

Sounds like the exact same reason why Gorden Brown is the current prime
minister... "because nobody else wanted the job......"

Maybe we should plan a big Uk Linux conference in London.



Peter.
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