I too am unable to make it to tonights meeting. I am also not in a position to take a leadership role for the foreseeable future.
Some thoughts on the current state and direction of CLUG. There are pockets of Linux users in Calgary that seem to be disconnected. I wonder if there is not some way to pool their efforts (Protospace and CUUG are two other places with Linux users that I know of)? There is also a burgeoning startup community in Calgary. Presumably there could be opportunities in that community. Personally I like meetings that are either presentation based (like Theo de Raadt's YYCIX CUUG presentation) or workshop based (where someone familiar with a technology demonstrates it, even better if we can follow along). The idea is that there is something specific drawing people in. A few years ago CLUG did the occasional afternoon event, that ranged from installfests to going deep on a particular technology (I still fondly recall the day spent with Apache nearly 10 years ago). The COSSFESTs were an awesome experience but were an awful lot of work. To resurrect this will require a number of dedicated people, and at least one dynamo of a leader (hats off to Shawn everyone). On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Greg King <wgk...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a conflict so will be unable to attend today. > > I think CLUG is an useful forum at times but we seem to be drifting > aimlessly these days. Maybe it is time to try something different. Some > ideas: > -quarterly meetings with topics announced well in advance (6-12 months). > Maybe have a recurring set of topics (Linux > distros-hardware-appliances/Multimedia-entertainment/Business apps/Gaming ) > with a very interested leader in each topic responsible for setting up a > once a year session. > -Go virtual (not sure what is involved here but seems like we should be > able to leverage some kind of collaboration tools, and have virtual meeting > with audio and video, recorded for posterity or at least a quarter or 2) > -See what other active LUGs are doing and maybe emulate - this one seems > to be still active http://www.svlug.org/ > -Get more vendor involvement (RedHat, Novell, Oracle/Sun/MySQL, Canonical, > IBM, Google/Android/ChromeOS, etc). We probably need to have more active > members before they would find that worthwhile. They could also help > promote the group but the focus would probably have to change from hobbyist > to business for them to do that. > > As usual talk is cheap and action is all that really counts. I cannot > commit to take a leading role in CLUG so I am all talk right now. I will > stay involved and attend interesting sessions if the group continues, and > help out where I can. > > I have been involved with a few groups that have folded over the years > (anyone remember Osborne or Commodore Amiga? :>) . In those cases the > platform went away, but Linux has never been more successful in the > marketplace so I think there is a high probability that the right people > could make a local user group very successful. > > My $0.05 (since we don't have pennies anymore). > > Have a good meeting and I'll try to catch up with you at Brewsters > afterwards if time permits. > > Regards, > Greg > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mel Walters" <melwalt...@telus.net> > To: "CLUG General" <clug-talk@clug.ca> > Cc: "clug events" <clug-eve...@clug.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, 5 March, 2014 1:12:57 PM > Subject: [clug-talk] CLUG Meeting this afternoon (today) > > Meeting at 6:00 > clug.ca > > What todays society wants is remarkable. Worth making a remark about. > > Is CLUG up to remarkable? There are at least two views or ways of > approaching this. One is more human than the other. > > See you at the meeting. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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