From jasonmbechtel at gmail.com Sun Jul 29 12:17:51 2007 From: jasonmbechtel at gmail.com (Jason Bechtel) Date: Sun Jul 29 12:17:55 2007 Subject: TALUG-board: "Do we still need LUGs?" --Yes! Message-ID: A nice survey of LUG activity... Do we still need LUGs? http://www.linux.com/feature/118046 "Whatever LUGs are for, and wherever they are headed, no one really wants them to go away. 'We still need LUGs,' Farris says. 'They provide a place for professionals, students, and hobbyists to meet, discuss and network.'" The upshot of the article is that the listserv is still the primary means of participation due to the asynchronous mode of communication and that LUGs are most valuable as social activities for like-minded people. It's not like it was back in the heydey anymore, but there's still a role for the LUG. It made me think that TALUG might want to refocus on its social aspect... explicitly assigning time for socializing during or after the meeting. That seems to be what more people really want. Just some food for thought... Jason From adakkak at eng.utoledo.edu Sun Jul 29 19:01:55 2007 From: adakkak at eng.utoledo.edu (adakkak) Date: Sun Jul 29 19:02:00 2007 Subject: TALUG-board: "Do we still need LUGs?" --Yes! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I find that discussions after a presentation, such as the one that happened last week are quite useful for new members. Discussions over lunch also attract some people and may become less formal. I think in the future we should have a 30 minute break during the middle of the presentation for people to socialize and ask questions. The reason for not having this time at the beginning or end is because people would either come in late, or come in early. On 7/29/07, Jason Bechtel wrote: > > A nice survey of LUG activity... > > Do we still need LUGs? > http://www.linux.com/feature/118046 > > "Whatever LUGs are for, and wherever they are headed, no one really > wants them to go away. 'We still need LUGs,' Farris says. 'They > provide a place for professionals, students, and hobbyists to meet, > discuss and network.'" > > The upshot of the article is that the listserv is still the primary > means of participation due to the asynchronous mode of communication > and that LUGs are most valuable as social activities for like-minded > people. It's not like it was back in the heydey anymore, but there's > still a role for the LUG. > > It made me think that TALUG might want to refocus on its social > aspect... explicitly assigning time for socializing during or after > the meeting. That seems to be what more people really want. > > Just some food for thought... > > Jason > _______________________________________________ > talug-board mailing list > talug-board@talug.org > http://uniqsys.com/mailman/listinfo/talug-board > -- 6 5 9 8 1 0 0 1 1 7 1 0 8 1 0 9 9 7 1 0 6 1 0 1 1 0 0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://webhost3.uniqsys.com/pipermail/talug-board/attachments/20070729/8e21f8bb/attachment.html