Anupam Jain wrote: Being involved with ilugc for almost 3 years now, as both physical volunteer and active in mailing list, I just want to add some of our own experiences as a LUG.
Every LUG can have two modes of operation which are vital to call it alive or dead - Digital and Physical. Digital activities include Mailing List (which is more or less mandatory) and a web site or wiki. Physical activities include monthly meets, seminars and workshops, etc. Considering mailing lists, its pretty much open to discussions. Though sometimes it gets personal, most times there are enough people and posts for both sides of the coin. But, as far as I have seen, participation in mailing list alone doesn't make one take decisions for a LUG. Although it is true that all people can not make themselves physically present in all the meets, at least they should be know to have attended a few. More physical participation you put, more your voices are heard. Though all issues are posted and discussed in mailing list, mostly whenever a concrete decision was required it was always through meets and physical participation. Decision making in mailing list has rather been ending up in a void state, without a concrete decision been reached mainly due to high volume counter-postings and flame wars. Sometimes we have had polls, example when we wanted to decide about reply-to munging for the mailing list. But, for physical activities it has always been through physical participations i.e. meets. Such meets are announced prior, those who are interested in decision making participate, those who are not in chennai do mail their voices before the meeting and the final decision is to the people who attend the meeting, mostly the most active 10-20 people of the LUG. I think, this is not much different from what have been happening in at least the other 2 LUGs i mentioned. Though Delhi LUG may be a registered body, still AFAIK follows a similar method where important decisions are taken through meetings and physical voting. -- With Regards Parthan (TechnoFreak) . A Proud GNU/Linux User and Ubuntero .0. ..0 [Web] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Parthan 000 [Blog]http://technofreakatchennai.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
