On 29 July 2012 11:10, Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used to go to LUGOG when it was at West Camel or at Somerton when Andrew > Waldrond was running them, but when he left and it went back to Glastonbury it > was a bit too far for me to travel.
Indeed... it never really "went back to Glastonbury", though... it just died, really. I liked Andrew's concept that we were going to build our own server in his datacentre from scratch and write a new website in php/mysql and have that for the LUG. Everybody involved. But then he disappeared to somewhere in the Far East or similar, and there was nobody really who had to passion to organise things, in the way that Steve Leonard-Clarke had started the group at St. Dunstans school in the early 2000s. One of my favourite sessions in those St. Dunstans days was the presentation by Tim Hall and the fella who wrote Rosegarden on using Linux to produce music... that was very enlightening and, indeed, I installed DeMudi on a machine but couldn't really get my head around "jack" and the way things interacted and had nobody to talk to about it really so lost interest... Martin Wheeler's idea to do a Certification course was a good one too, but - probably - not relevant to 75% of "Linux" users, but rather systems administrators. So that died. Perhaps the key is that it's not about "Linux User Groups" but people trying to do specific things with Linux? > I did try to get something started with a user group in South Somerset (SSLUG) > but that went quiet too. I think our problem is that there simply aren't the number of people in the area to make it sustainable unless everybody turns up every meeting, and people have other commitments. And the said question as to whether peoples shared interest are actually "Linux" or whatever they are doing with it (eg. modelling or music)? Would, for instance, a group in Glastonbury meeting about recording music on computers (on any platform) get more members than a group focusing on the underlying kernel? The key is, what does a LUG offer over and above what people can already get on web communities? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
