Are Social Networking Sites Reducing Activity on This List?

[Michael Havens]

Brian, I would love to help but, alas, I know not what I can do being a
no-nothing and living so far away.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> From what I have gathered, Linux has become extremely easy to use, to the
> point that a lot of people that used to post on the list and come to the
> meetings feels like they don't need the help anymore.
>
> I always try and impress on them that if they got something out of PLUG
> that they should try and put something back in, in the form of helping
> other people or to give presentations, or just contributing to a project.
>  Alas, we don't see a lot of that.  PLUG tends to be an "add a penny take a
> penny" bowl where people tend to just take pennies.
>
> There are approximately 500 unique email addresses subscribed to the
> PLUG-Discuss mailing list, but you would never know it.  There are really
> only 10 or so people that ever contribute on the list.  The people on the
> list aren't really showing up to PLUG meetings either, and I know there are
> a handful of regulars that do show up that aren't even subscribed to the
> mailing list.  The number of people that contribute to the meetings
> regularly could most like be counted on one hand.
>
> Linux has come an amazing distance in a fairly short amount of time, but
> it seems that there is a glass ceiling that we have hit where people are
> comfortable enough with the status quo and don't want to contribute like
> they used to... if they would, I can't help but to think that we would have
> made a much bigger dent in the desktop area.
>
> I would love to see the good old days come back so we could have some
> serious problems with finding enough space to hold a meeting.  It would
> make it a whole lot easer to get some big names in to give talks... thats
> for sure.
>
> Brian Cluff
> (Sorry, feeling a little "ranty" just now :)
>
> On 05/01/2013 11:54 AM, keith smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I belong to a number of tech mailing lists such as PLUG and AZPHP.  The
>> AZPHP list has gone almost completely dark.  It has been that way for
>> maybe 3 years??
>>
>> I'm wondering if the social networking websites might be drawing down
>> membership and activity.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>>
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