[Gloucs] Future meetings and/or future of the LUG

[Matthew Phillips]

I now train on a Tuesday night so cannot come, shame it can't be a
Sunday evening :-(

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On 14 Feb 2012, at 09:24, Bob Henson <robert.h.henson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/02/2012 10:18 PM, Glyn Davies wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Next Tuesday is our next planned meeting date. No talk planned as yet.
>> Any offers?
>>
>> Last month Tony turned up as 'back up' talk with more of his Perl
>> masterclass. Unfortunately, he was the only one to turn up. Thank you
>> for your effort Tony and sorry it was wasted.
>>
>> So, this raises the question "Is it worth trying to continue with LUG
>> meetings?". Have LUGs 'run their course'? Will new initiatives such as
>> hackerspace kill off LUGs (they certainly won't help)?
>>
>> Interested in your thoughts. Lack of discussion would imply lack of
>> interest in which case I'd suggest we state that the LUG is inactive
>> on the website and leave it for new blood to resurrect. From my PoV as
>> unelected/adopted meeting arranger it would make things simpler.
>> Perhaps quarterly socials would be better?
>>
>> If we continue, it would certainly seem sensible that we get some
>> confirmed attendees before holding future meetings.
>>
>> As I said, interested in your thoughts.
>>
>
> I don't know if the views of a lurker in the background are of interest,
> but you asked, so here goes. One of my problems is that Tetbury is just
> far enough away to be a tad difficult to get to the meetings on time,
> but I doubt that has any relevance to the issue. Gloucester is a big
> place and many Linux users must be near to what sounds like an excellent
> venue.
>
> Your talks seem to be aimed at computer professionals. If not many
> experts are turning up, what about the learners? Would "dumbing down"
> bring in more people. The talks are way above the level of many ordinary
> Linux users, and have not been relevant to a learner like myself. Many
> have had little to do with Linux per se - at ordinary user level, at
> least. Are existing members sufficiently evangelical about Linux to want
> to "spread the word" and increase the number of users out there? Would
> that bore you all to tears? I don't know - only you can say.
>
> It might well be that young people or new users generally these days
> really aren't interested in how the operating system works (I'm retired
> and have time to play around a little with Linux) but perhaps most users
> want to *use* a system, not learn about it, in which case there would be
> no point in trying to change things in that direction.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
>
>
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