On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Lori Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I've been enjoying the refreshing vacuum of KWLUG for almost five years<br>
now.<br>
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In that time, the direction-less and poorly documented membership of<br>
KWLUG has been instrumental in several remarkable FLOSS achievements in<br>
SWO and beyond: Ontario Linux Fest, Open Street Map, numerous FLOSS<br>
projects, FLOSS fund... and stimulated other groups with similar<br>
free/libre perspectives. I would go as far as to say that KWLUG is the<br>
flagship Linux User Group in the country on the basis of vitality,<br>
(anarchic) organization and tangible impact.<br>
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So what is it, exactly, that we are trying to fix?<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree with Lori. <br><br>I like some of the ideas tossed around: reaching out for new audience,
getting<br>
us advertised somewhere (e.g. The Record community events), newbie
night,<br>
social, ...etc.<br><br>We are fortunate that our group is really active and has frequent interesting <br>talks with high attendance. <br><br>Contrast that with GTA LUG (with Toronto being the center of the universe<br>and all). They had noticeably lower attendance when I was giving the LAMP<br>
talk there. Perhaps 15 to 20 compared to around 30 in KW.<br></div></div><br>Whatever else we do, should be in addition to, not in lieu of, what is working <br>now. It should not overlap in time or space lest we lose momentum.<br>
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