[Wylug-discuss] Future of WYLUG...

[Jim Jackson]

Hi All,

Because of his peripetic job, Dave Fisher has been finding it difficult 
for sometime to do the WYLUG organiser bit, and has decided it call it a 
day. Since I retired from being organiser I've been responsible for 
liaising with the School of Computing at the University over the use of the 
venue, and for opening up and making sure tea/coffee/biscuits were there, 
and I've decided to drop out of that job too.

Sooooo... WYLUG is in urgent need of a take over, if it is going to 
continue as anything more than the email lists.

There is a wylug-admin list(*), that can be used for discussing admin type 
stuff and doing organising etc, which might bore people rigid on this list, 
or there again it might not. I think getting on wylug-admin is via a 
moderator, Nigel Metheringham should be able to confirm.

James Holden has suggested it would be a good idea to list what jobs need 
doing, ideally, so people can decide if they feel like volunteering. So
here is my first cut:

   1) Organise & administer speakers/events for meetings
      One person needs to co-ordinate this job, even if several people
      help. To be honest we should all be on the look out for speakers
      and/or topics we think will be of interest.

   2) Keep in contact with University over use/booking of venue.
      Collect keys and open/close venue for meetings.
      Put up posters guiding people to venue.

   3) Provision of coffee/tea/biscuits for meetings

   4) Web Site Maintenance

   5) Mail List Maintenance (done by Nigel Metheringham and Smylers(?))


As Dave will vouch, job 1) is not easy, speakers often don't just 
volunteer, but need asking, and dates negotiated etc. In the past we have 
run series of talks, e.g. Introductory sessions on various topics for new 
users of Linux, but that is a luxuory only possible by having people with 
the ideas and people prepared to organise it. On the whole we've just 
taken what was available, which mostly works.

cheers
Jim

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