[Gloucs] Meetings and organisation - volunteers needed

[Francis Barton]

Further to the thread in March/April initiated by the email below, I 
have now handed over the keys to Paul Broadhead and Glyn Davies.

Please give them your support as they take over running the mailing list 
and website, and organising meetings. Barbie and Gareth Bromley also 
mentioned helping with getting speakers, venues etc. sorted; hopefully 
things will come together and stuff will get organised!

Thank you for a good few years being part of the LUG, it's been fun and 
a privilege to meet some of you. Sorry for not being the best at 
organising stuff and keeping the website going.

Particular thanks to stalwarts Paul and Glyn for offering to take over.

Good luck for the future.
I shall probably lurk on the list for a while... :-)

Francis.


On 28/03/2006 15:01, Francis Barton wrote:
> Dear friends in the LUG
> 
> Well after quite a few years of varying degrees of involvement in the
> Gloucestershire LUG, I have got to the point where I cannot pretend I have
> any interest in continuing my involvement.
> 
> I haven't made a meeting in over a year, and have blatantly failed to take
> any steps towards arranging one or getting others organised to meet. Sorry
> about this - I kept thinking that keeping the LUG active would be one of
> those things I would get around to pursuing, but I can see that isn't
> going to happen, particularly as I am going to become a father in 6 weeks'
> time.
> 
> I take the general quietness of the list here as a good sign that many
> people are finding support through their distro websites and forums, or
> that Linux installs are now becoming so user-friendly that problems rarely
> occur. This is a great thing!
> 
> Loads of people are joining the group all the time, and I think there is a
> huge amount of talent and raw material for a dynamic and influential local
> LUG, if there was better communication and co-ordination.
> 
> So I am proposing to step down from the list moderator role (spam filter
> cleaner!) and I would like to ask for some people to step forward to take
> on semi-formal roles as meeting/talk organisers, list admin/moderators,
> publicity/event organisers etc. Also the IRC channel has been dead for a
> while - anyone want to take on the job of drumming up interest and keeping
> that going?
> 
> Those of you who are vigorous and full of enthusiaism for Linux, please
> step up! If you would like to take the opportunity to shape the future of
> the LUG then this is your chance. It's _so_ not a situation where things
> are set in stone and newcomers are not able to come through and make their
> mark on the organisation.
> 
> Please post your replies to this thread with your suggestions for ways
> forward and your offers to volunteer to co-ordinate certain things or take
> on the roles I have suggested (or other tasks you have thought of).
> 
> When the group has agreed suitable people to be responsible for such
> things, I can pass on to them the passwords for the lug.org.uk website
> (FTP/SSH) and for the mailman list admin page. These can (should!)
> probably be separate people or teams.
> 
> With many thanks to Paul B, Glyn, Mick, Mark, Gareth, Iain, Steve S, Dave
> Addison, Jinxy and many others who have helped keep things ticking over
> for the last few years.
> 
> Francis (not going anywhere quite yet...)
> 
> 
> PS Just to clarify for those who like to worry about such things; I do
> think Linux is fantastic, and have not gone off it; in fact it's just
> become so easy to use that I don't even think twice about it. It's mainly
> because of this that I have lost motivation for bothering with belonging
> to the LUG. It's nothing personal. Also, I want the LUG to prosper but I
> was not contributing to this happening. So "Good night and good luck" as
> the film title goes :-)
> 
> 
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