<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello<br><br>I would be interested in producing a 4 page newsletter about Linux and FOSS.<br>This would be something that can be left in car repair waiting rooms, coffee shops etc.<br><br>John Kerr<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">We act as though comfort and luxury<br>were the chief requirements of life,<br>when all that we need to make us happy<br>is something to be enthusiastic about.<br>—Einstein<br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/21/09, unsolicited <i><unsolicited@swiz.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: unsolicited <unsolicited@swiz.ca><br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] What would people like to do, under the auspices of kwlug?<br>To: "Kwlug-Disc" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 10:55 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Let me try approaching some of the recent list threads from a different direction.<br><br>There are things I would be interested in seeing happen.<br><br>They are things that are too big for me to do on my own as an individual.<br><br>They are things that don't require the entirety of kwlug.<br><br>There seems to be no middle ground. There is no mechanism to group a subset of the entire group around a common effort. er, kwlug contains a group of likely interested individuals, some of whom might be interested in collaborating in the accomplishment of a <thunk>.<br><br>The <thunk>, in essence, would be
accomplished in the name of, or under the auspices of, kwlug.<br><br>What might people like to see happen, under the auspices of kwlug?<br><br>Some examples might be, but I'm far more interested in what individuals might be interested in doing:<br><br>- installfest<br>- launch party<br>- workshops<br>- how to host a meeting<br>- how to present<br>- since multiple rooms at 1st are available, splitting the latter half of a meeting into two parts between (advanced) presentation topic and <thunk><br>- community project (do a website for a charitable organization?)<br>- community project (a la FOSS / with a [subversion?] repository) - contribute code somewhere or to something.<br>- I have no idea, I'm making this list up to solicit your ideas & thoughts.<br><br><br>It seems to me there is no mechanism or facilities to gather interested members of kwlug into a smaller collaborative effort.<br><br>What would it take to create a kwlug egroupware site,
or something, to promote such collaborations?<br><br><br>More importantly - what might people like to collaborate on?<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>