On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:27:17PM +1000, Philip Greggs wrote:
> Extreme examples are codefests in Wollongong in recent times. If you
> remember or check the Archives, it was announced only Debian installs will
> be done.
1) Installfest, not codefest
2) Ubuntu, not Debian
3) It was only for UoW st
> > I don't think this is accurate at all. Membership has been declining due
> > to the change in demographic
>
> Demography as I understand is a basket of things like Age, Sex, Race,
> Education, and similar categories. This can't be correlated to decline in
> SLUG membership. The link is very
> Extreme examples are codefests in Wollongong in recent times.
> If you remember or check the Archives, it was announced only Debian
> installs
> will be done.
Leaving aside the rest of the message can I make a couple of corrections
here please. Firstly it was an installfest not a code fest, seco
On 4/6/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > The rumour vines says this: intending members using other distros are
> > discouraged altogether from becoming members. The President's report was
> > making this plain and clear - declining membership in recent years.
>
> I don't think this
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:04 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:53:30PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> > Many great ideas, projects and partnerships have spawned from those
> > meetings. Within a few meetings it had gone from being Debian only talk
> > topics to more like SL
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:53:30PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Many great ideas, projects and partnerships have spawned from those
> meetings. Within a few meetings it had gone from being Debian only talk
> topics to more like SLUG-Social - with the name never being changed
> because no one co
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:09 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> I think the thing to take out of this discussion is that it takes a lot of
> work to build a community, and if you want to get a particular thing out of
> your community, you need to contribute and work towards it.
In 2001 (I think) I wanted
> The rumour vines says this: intending members using other distros are
> discouraged altogether from becoming members. The President's report was
> making this plain and clear - declining membership in recent years.
I don't think this is accurate at all. Membership has been declining due to
the
