On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Why do you feel that the number of participants is a > yardstick ? Are we just talking about crowd pulling ? Even if the lug > meet has just 10 people, but something of great value is being > discuss, I would consider that to be quite active. Thanks > > > PS: There are ilugc members who are far away from Chennai and there > are people for whom Saturdays might not workout well. So, we should > never use the participant strength as a measure. > +1 Definitely participant strength should not be considered as a measure of quality. There are a lot of factors that influence it. >From students perspective, the months of March, April and May are tightly packed with academic works (project submission/review, semester examination and the like). This will have a considerable effect on the count. And now it's summer vacation and so the students who are not native to Chennai would not be available. Thus considering the count of people as a measure is absurd, unless it drops drastically. (If the participant/user strength has to be considered the measure, Windows has to be called the best OS!) -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
