Salam Alaikum Thank you for taking the time to self examine.
In addition to the points you raised I would like to emphasis the power or advertising early and often. There is a methodology of advertisement that is not being followed religiously. - Announce your plan early. - Engage your audience with feed back. - Announce final plans. - Post on web as early as possible as much Lecture as you can ahead of time. - Announce a week a head. - Send a reminder 2 days ahead. This worked well in the past. When I followed this method we had packed sessions of minimum 20 person most of the time. Many new faces every time. This HAS to be done every time for every event. People has the attention span of a a fruit fly and we have to deal with it accordingly. We must stop wishing for people to become responsible and do what we wantt them to do. Be a Shepard not a heard leader. Failing to methodically manage information propagation will lead to dwindling attendance. We had that happen so many times it is a scientific fact by now. We discussed the need to post announcement on every bill board in every university, college and high school on a regular basis. Every one said it is a great idea but none stepped to post a single paper in his own school. The way I see it is this: We have to keep supplying fresh blood to the lug until we push out complacency along with the existing crowd. Patience is key. It may take years but we have to do our parts. Good intentions are not enough. So I bring back the to the front what we agreed to: - Project flyer: Prepare a generic Arabic/English paper to introduce the website and the meeting locations and post it _everywhere_ REGULARLY. - Work on Lecture topics for at least the upcoming 4 months and advertise the heck out them. - Create a Hall of Shame for every one who promised to do something and then ate his words. - Devise a criteria to be removed from Hall of Shame. Promotion, promotion, promotion.. I made an analogy years ago that some found it funny. Wearing silk underwear feels good but no one will know expect the person wearing them. So here we are proudly patting each other on the back for the place, the web site, the mailing list and the word of mouth while knowing how tingly this silk is. Doing the above recommendation will guarantee and standing room every Lecture insha'Allah. Wassalam alakium wr wb Abdallah On 5/18/07, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > So, after yesterday's lecture, we sat down and started discussing the next > one and we noticed that the luggers were 1) Not asking for topics, 2) Not > stepping up to give lectures, and 3) Not attending lectures. I'm sure that > most of you are well accomplished in the computer industry, but surely there > must be something that you don't know/want to know/can share!! > > The thing that perks me the most is, the lug doesn't seem to be > appreciative of the facilities we have, and we definitely are not > capitalizing on them. I know for a fact, that members of other lugs would > die to find a suitable place to meet at on a regular basis. Yet, we have > access to fully equipped labs and simply refuse to use them. There is > something wrong in this picture!! If you do not appreciate what you have, > then you are bound to lose it. > > After Mousa explained to me the great lengths he and saddam went through > to prepare for the previous lecture, and how only one person showed up, i > was seriously annoyed. If i spent more than six hours in a lab preparing for > a lecture that was announced for 4 weeks, and then nobody showed up, i would > completely give up on the LUG. Not to mention that Mousa is cutting no less > than 3 hours every week of his own personal free weekend time, to try to > show support, and getting a cold shoulder in return. > > So, this goes out to everybody (although i'm sure we will only get replies > from the usual few who actually reply... hmm, maybe we should give a lecture > about using mail clients), What exactly is it that you want from the lug? > Social events, not many show up, and nothing of importance happens. We > scheduled bi monthly meetings, and only the first 3 meetings got through. > Lecture, first 2 lectures are stacked, then nobody shows up. > Public awareness campaigns (like the recent one at JU), a handful of > people offered to help. > > I just checked and we have 84 members in the jolug google group. Where are > those people? Why is it that anybody that reads our archives thinks that the > lug is only ~20 people? Why is jolug.org so dead? It's a great site, with > great potential, but without user interaction, it's of no good use to > anybody. > > So, i'll repeat my question again: What do you want from JoLug? > > The next meeting is scheduled on June 1st, it will be held at ITU, and > will be a social event, just trying to figure the mess we are in. One can > only hope that something comes out of it. > > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > Phone: +962-7-77 799 781 > P.O Box: 140056 > 11814 Amman, Jordan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
