[Klug-general] KLUG Meetings

[Peter Childs]

If people want a meeting in Dover, then fine, But someone in that part of
Kent will have to organise it, Kent is a big place and if we want to meet
in Dover and other places we need to split organisation of thouse meets to
people who are near the venues to organise and advertise them properly to
the locals.

If someone wants a meet in Dover then they can organise it, but I've got no
plans to start doing stuff by remote control.

KLUG was started as a roadshow to bring this thing called Linux to Kent.
but times have changed and moved on and KLUG needs to move with them.

We are now competing with a lot of other IT stuff that happens in Kent,
ICMP, digibury, etc etc, and KLUG has its place but I'm not sure it is what
it was.

If we can get good speakers in for a date other than the Last Saturday in
the month, then we can hold meets at other times, provided we have enough
notice to book venues and organise people.

I see Klug as a group of Linux people to encorage Linux/GNU/Software
Freedom in Kent we are not a group of geeks who meet on the last Saturday
in the month in autopilot.

If we use the List, website, IRC etc to advertise, list and organise IT
events in Kent, then we have done our job. If all we manage is aid
communicate among people who use Linux within Kent then we have done our
Job.

Peter.


On 9 January 2012 12:49, Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rodney
> Our meeting in March would be on Saturday 31st March. Would could move it
> to 24th March if better for Neil.
> I am sure ICM will host and advertise it.
>
> Colin
>
> On 9 January 2012 12:38, Rodney Buckland <r.buckland at open.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>  Dear All
>>
>> I'm still in contact with Neil Smith of the Open University concerning a
>> talk/market research about his Linux course. (Neil is considering
>> developing a range of courses beyond the introductory one.)
>>
>> Problem: I'm just about to leave for an Australian lecture tour (I know,
>> I know...but somebody has to do these things.) The earliest monthly meeting
>> I could attend/introduce Neil would be March. I strongly prefer ICMP as a
>> venue.
>>
>> If someone can give me a date in March, I'm happy to try and book Neil
>> before I leave for the beach antipodes.
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Rodney
>>
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