[Wylug-discuss] Future of WYLUG...

[Jim Jackson]

Well the discussion here was a non-event. 3 people bravely volunteered to 
do something, (or keep on doing it in Nigel's case), but nothing else.

WYLUG is supposed to meet a week on monday - 12th May.

The default position is the Pub.

It would be good if someone who unstands the CMS on the WYLUG site could 
put soemthing to that effect on there.



On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Jim Jackson wrote:

>
> 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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