Re: [Nolug] ideas to help nolug grow

Thou spake:
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> When was the last time a member asked someone else to either join the
>list?
>OR
> Attend a meeting?
>
> WHO are you trying to attract?
> newbies like me?
> people who actually know what they are talking about?

Actually, I do this quite often, to anyone who does IT (mostly windows folks)
that I happen to meet.

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> A once a month meeting with a sort-of program (no Joey, I'm not
>trying to insult you.)

No offence taken. Again, you guys wouldn't be stuck with boring old me if
other old hands were available to present topics.

>
> The meeting last Thursday was my first.
> It is clearly a collegial group.
> I learned a lot of stuff in the banter, BUT since I know hardly anything,
>everything is news to me.

I'd found that the banter is one of the main reasons for showing up. I
learned a lot when I was a newbie by simply listening to the more experienced
folks chat.

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> How about affiliations with some other computer user groups? Somehow I
>got the impression that most of the Linux boxes 'in' the group were either
>Intel or AMD, not something 'else'. Is this true?

Not true. Sparc is a popular platform among unix geeks, for example.

> I know there is the NOPCC that meets 630pm First Wed of each month at
>J.D.Meisler School (on Cleary, between Vets & W. Esplanade, in Metairie).
>There is NO ONE there that speaks Linux. I know, I'm a member, could not
>find one, went looking for someone, and found your list. I also know they
>are having declining membership problems too (as are most clubs - I think
>the internet is partly to blame). There could be some symbiosis perhaps.

Perhaps. If you know the leaders, I'm more than willing to talk to them. My
one experience with that group wasn't pretty, though. I heard more wrong
advice given out in the 45 minutes I was there than I'd hoped to hear in a
whole year.

> There is also a Chalmette computer club.
>
> I hope these comments are not too presumptuous from one sooooo neeeew
>to this group.

Thanks for speaking up. You've been in IT long enough to have insights that
us newer guys could benefit from hearing about.

> I would like to see it succeed.
> I'm not the only one out there stumbling toward Linux (especially on the
>desktop).
>
>
>Tom 22 FEB 03
>Thomas E. Stirewalt Jr.
>voice= 504-581-1974 [ans.mach]
>email= TomS@ComputerBrain.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joey Kelly" <joey@joeykelly.net>
>To: <nolug@nolug.org>
>Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:44 PM
>Subject: [Nolug] ideas to help nolug grow
>

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