On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 12:37, Evan McNabb wrote:
> The problem is I'm not a full time linux advocate. I'm a student, with a
> job, and a social life... (well, I am on IM all the time if that counts). 
> I have a limited amount of time and every time we have a booth / installfest
> my life gets swamped. Therefore, I can't attend a booth in every building 
> on campus. The Talmage is where I'm always in, and I know the students that
> are in there, and a high percent of people are interested. If there are 
> geology linux users that want to have a booth in the ESC, more power to them.

Ah, but that's different than saying that we will focus on CS, EE and
IS. I see no problem with saying that we will work to expand membership
by taking advantage of current membership. I simply worry about relying
exclusively on booths and installfests advertised in only a couple of
buildings. You're right, it probably isn't worth the time to setup a
booth in the RB. If we could get voluteers to work in the ESC it might
be worth it. But both buildings can be easily covered with fliers until
then. Not to mention trying to get the daily universe to notice us, and
exploring other forms of advertising.

The UUG should not be about just linux. It should not be just about Free
Software. It should not be limited to CS majors.

I'm not worrying about what we do right now. I'm worrying about what we
don't do. As long as we keep in mind that we have something to offer the
entire community, I trust we will make good decisions. If we start
thinking that the UUG applies only to people planning on going into
careers directly related to computers, we will start making decisions
that exclude others whether we mean to or not.

-- 
Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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