On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:19:39PM -0700, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > Now, this group is getting close to the way it was 4 years ago, where > there are about 10 people that really care about seeing the club > succeed. And this week shows me that there may be even less than > that. > > I guess this group had a good run. I made some good friends and still > joke about Mandrake with Stuart and Evan, but perhaps the UUG well has > run dry. Then again, maybe i'm wrong and we'll see a better turnout > at the installfest.
I must say, I've been having similar bad feelings the last few months. We haven't had a single meeting yet this semester, and it's starting to feel like half the meetings are Newbies Meetings. I think the main thing that scares me is that we aren't getting any new members. A lot of the really strong and enthusiastic members of the UUG in the past have been sophomores--people excited to be jumping back into school. I have a hard time believing that younger students aren't interested in Linux anymore. I think they either don't know about the UUG or don't want to come. I don't want to be too critical, but I think we need to have more interesting meetings and hold them more regularly. The last real meeting was December 1 (I was asked to present for it just a few days in advance). The last one before that was November 3rd (and was an excellent meeting). Last semester there were only 4 meetings, as I count them (I'm not counting newbie meetings). By the time we have another real meeting, it will have been 2 meetings in 4 months! I don't know how young students are supposed to get involved with something when there's nothing to get involved with. I absolutely don't want the UUG to die. Let's start using Linux more, doing more fun things with it, having more interesting technical meetings and on-list discussions, and making something that others will want to get involved with. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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