On Tuesday 15 June 2010 11:59:36 Anthoni Shogan wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2010 11:58 PM, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote: > > IMHO, We are talking something else instead of addressing the core issue > > of bringing the crowd.Social networking is one of the action items, i > > humbly invite all for the next meet. Your presence is the biggest > > present.I will close this as my last reply in this thread > > Thyagu, > > How do you think this will help in bringing in more crowd to ILUGC > monthly meets? > > We already have two websites (not to mention this list), you think this > is not enough?? >
a point that I am frequently making on LUG lists is that ILUGC has more activities in a month than the rest of the LUGs in India have in a year. And there are so many children of the parent LUG that meet all the time all over the state that one can not even count them! In a big city, getting to a meeting is always difficult - and to add to the difficulty, more and more members are getting married and hence have much less time to turn up on a Saturday afternoon or on a Sunday. Mumbai LUG manages around one meet a year - and even then not more than 5 or 6 people turn up. Same is the case in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Pune is an exception in that they have several running courses where member can meet each other. The scene where the people turning up are the old regulars and a few new students, will continue. One thing which will push up the attendance is a good talk - we encourage first timers to give talks at the LUG to get experience in a friendly atmosphere - at the same time if we can work at getting highly experienced people giving really good talks, the attendance will jump. When I am in Chennai, I try to attend - but I attend out of loyalty rather than to hear the talks, although I find I learn something new even when a raw newbie talks. Hyderabad lug, some years back used to take pains to get good speakers, and I have seen audience of upto 40-50 people for such talks. Which means we cannot sit back and wait for volunteers - we must find out who can give good talks and twist their arms and make them come through. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
