Re: [Nolug] ideas to help nolug grow

T.E.Stirewalt wrote:

> Making a group grow ....
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> I believe the secret is in PUBLICITY ! Preferably cheap (free) but
>effective.
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I agree, but there needs to be targeted audiences first - small business
IT managers, CS majors, etc. Advertising to the general populace and
campus community is futile at best.

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> 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.
> WHAT did the other members get out of the meeting? Some certainly
>contributed.
>
I've only been to one meeting, but my experience was that there was a
lot of banter; and to be honest, I like meetings that are more to the
point and follow an agenda. I know I am not the busiest person on the
list, but I just can't sit in a meeting for 2 hrs that is not pointed
and directed.

>
> 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?
> 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.
>
My dad was in NOPCC; aren't they mostly windows centric?

> There is also a Chalmette computer club.
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>
Good one ;)

> I hope these comments are not too presumptuous from one sooooo neeeew
>to this group.
> I would like to see it succeed.
> I'm not the only one out there stumbling toward Linux (especially on the
>desktop).
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>
Hey, don't forget FreeBSD :)

In closing, I would like to say that I am interested in helping out.
I'd like to see the group succeed, but my style/personality lends itself
to more organized and focused efforts. This is where my comments are
coming from, and I certainly mean no offense to anyone.

>
>Tom 22 FEB 03
>Thomas E. Stirewalt Jr.
>voice= 504-581-1974 [ans.mach]
>email= TomS@ComputerBrain.net
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>----- 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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>>Hey y'all,
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>>We tossed a few ideas around at this week's nolug meeting (like we always
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>do,
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>>I guess) as to how we can make our club grow/improve/whatever:
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>>1). I mentioned that the Baton Rouge Linux Users Group (http://brlug.org)
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>is
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>>gearing up to offer linux classes to interested parties. I lurk on their
>>list, and don't know the scope of what they are trying to do (will they
>>charge for the classes, what target audience are the trying to reach,
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>etc.?),
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>>but they do seem rather hyped about it. Could we do something similar here
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>in
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>>New Orleans? Several people expressed reservations, mainly about the
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>present
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>>strength of nolug being a large barrier to the success of this type of
>>venture.
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>>2). Several people made the statement that UNO is kind of far or
>>out-of-the-way, and if the meetings were closer to Metairie, they'd feel
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>more
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>>like coming. Also the idea of holding a second meeting during the week was
>>suggested, and everyone seemed to be in favor of that. Delgado was
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>suggested
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>>as an acceptable place to hold an alternate meeting (is this a good idea,
>>will they go for it? would UNO feel slighted if we held meetings at
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>another
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>>campus? Scott, what's your opinion of this? etc.?) and I offered to make
>>suitable inquiries.
>>--
>>
>>Joey Kelly
>>< Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
>>http://joeykelly.net
>>
>>I'd rather crash a Ford than wreck a Chevy
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