Re: Raising attendance [was: "membership and..."]

2007-10-10 Thread David Marston
I have been watching the discussion and I want to see more ideas about where GNHLUG fits in the Linux universe. Some of you have observed that there are worldwide resources to support Linux users, which GNHLUG should not attempt to duplicate. I also see several Linux magazines on the newsstand. (So

Better Marketing (was: Re: Raising attendance [was: "membership and..."])

2007-09-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
Just an observation that the question has moved from "how do we do get more members?" to "how do we do better marketing?" That looks like progress to me. If I may posit a non-prejudiced thought-experiment: "A bunch of marketing folks sit down in a room to come up with some kernel improv

Re: Raising attendance [was: "membership and..."]

2007-09-26 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 09:01, Ted Roche wrote: > > 1. How do we let more people know about the meetings? > > 2. Are there particular groups we can target who would be more likely > to bring attendees to the meetings than broadcasts to the general > public? For example, letting students in C

Re: Raising attendance [was: "membership and..."]

2007-09-26 Thread Ted Roche
Ted Roche wrote: > > Also agreed. Perhaps I need to focus the question more succinctly. I > would like to raise the number of people who *attend* the meetings we > are giving. I believe there are more people like us who would *attend* > if we were better able to reach them. > And that our reason

Re: Raising attendance [was: "membership and..."]

2007-09-26 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > > We still have no agreed-upon definition for "member" or "join". I > originally just found that humorous, but I suspect that indefiniteness > may be relevant to the topic at hand. Agreed. And those discussions have been beaten to death and remain indefinite. I don't conside