Website contributions (Was: Re: The site is down)

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 07:00 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:52:37PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > 
> > >As for the dog and pony shows known as East Side / West Side
> > >meetings...that's been done for so many years that it's a somewhat tired
> > >format that isn't going to draw a lot of people to them.
> > 
> > Well, then we need to fix them. The dog and pony shows in silicon valley
> > have been going for longer than PLUG, but they still draw lots of people.
> > 
> > Also, I think it would be awesome if we were drawing people who "just want
> > to use the computer" and don't want to be computer gurus.
> > 
> > We have awesome software to demo for just that audience: Firefox,
> > OpenOffice.org, Inkscape, Blender, the GIMP, GAIM, PDF Creator, ...
> 
> I've noticed that there is little intersection in the groups attending
> the East Side meeting and the Developers meeting. Now, the Dev meeting
> isn't huge, but it draws about the same numbers as East Side.
> 
> I wonder how many people would show if there were a System
> Administrators meeting?
> 
> While I think there's a place for apps like GIMP, Blender and such, and
> probably a wide audience, you'll probably never see me at one of those
> meetings.
> 
> You can have geographically-based meetings and try to draw the biggest
> numbers (and turn off people with no interest) or have SIG-type
> meetings. As you may guess, I would prefer SIG meetings. They would have
> their own set of problems, of course. But I think SIGs would be a good
> thing, and perhaps instead of 20 new users groups sprouting up we could
> have a few SIGs (SA, Web dev, Noobs/Apps).
> 
> Just an idea, and probably not a new one here...
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I agree

Craig