# Worst case scenario you have a bunch of newbs, who are mostly
# interested in things most of us conquered years ago.
AFAICT most LUGs deal with this "problem", insofar as it affects the
range of topics discussed. Some LUGs claim to be "new-user-friendly",
albeit at the risk of boring the more experienced. At any rate, you
might want to refrain from using terms like "worst case" and "newbs"
if you have any aspirations of attracting new membership.
I mean if most of the people showing up on any given meeting are there
for new user type help they will overwhelm the few more experienced
users with questions. So the next meeting will have even fewer
experienced users showing up, and the new users won't have anyone to
help them so they will leave. Then no one is left.
Newer users are a good source of growth as their interest is high, and
it is only a matter of time before they are experienced users, but if
they make up more than 1/3 of any meeting they tend to drive down
attendance. We don't want to drive them away we just want to balance
their numbers with greater numbers of more experienced users.
I think the trick to doing this might be advanced topics. If the
meeting is scheduled so that advanced topics (that may be of great
interest to more advanced users, but intimidating to newer users) are
either at the beginning or end of the meeting people can plan to
arrive, and leave based on what they are interested in.
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