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 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >