The Reading LUG are self confessed lazy people. The reason they don't
have any schedule or speakers or install fests etc is because they
simply can't be bothered! I think it works very well and I'm not sure
I've make the 40 mile round trip to simply be lectured at. However I'm
very much hoping that if I get my idea of the ground existing
enthusiasts would join in and add their own input, so perhaps we'll have
a bit of everything in the long run.
I guess it all depends on who your target audience is. Are you appealing
to the hobbyist who already knows his way round the system? Or to the
newbie who doesn't even know they want linux yet? I'd like to appeal to
the latter.
There's no reason why users of different distros shouldn't get along. To
be honest I've never really strayed from Ubuntu and it could be a bit of
a group adventure downloading and trying a few of the more obscure distros.
How about incorporating both the more formal meeting and the casual ones
into a schedule? Having them every other month, alternating perhaps?
That way you keep everyone happy, albeit bi-monthly.
On 29/07/12 10:57, Sean Miller wrote:
We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again,
haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is
exactly this...
On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
I didn't really picture it as being something so formal as having speakers
really. At Reading nothing like that goes on and it's a very casual
Nobody in the LUG seems to be able to agree on what they want.
Some won't attend unless it's a formal speaker type setup ("I might as
well just go down my local and chat to Linux users online than travel
to drink with Linux users who probably don't know much anyway" etc.)
and others don't really want a formal presentation and would rather a
casual chat about shared problems etc.
It's all really "horses for courses" and, unfortunately, we don't have
enough members to really sustain two courses.
The other problem, of course, is that Linux is a kernel not an
Operating System so whilst the users no doubt have a lot in common
there is a lot that is different too.... we need to recognise that
most "Linux Users" are no longer trying to do obscure things from the
command line but are far more likely to be running applications and
(of course) we have the 90% of "Linux Users" who don't even know
they're "Linux Users" but are running the kernel on their Android
smartphones.
Not to mention that if you get a Debian user, a KDE user on another
distro, a Gnome user and a Ubuntu together in one room there is
guaranteed to be fireworks. We have the challenge of "evangelism",
people not trying to help but rather convert, saying things like "that
wouldn't happen on *MY* distribution"...
It's far too much effort for me, to be honest. I would *love* LUGOG
to restart, but I have no great confidence that it would survive for
more than another 2-3 meetings.
Any ideas anybody could offer as to how one could make a LUG viable in
a sparsely populated area like Mid Somerset would be gratefully
received.
Sean
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