Paul, even though you're writing about SLUG, other lugs I know could be
inserted in place, and it'd still be valid. Lug attendance is down (*way
down*) at all the lugs I've been to. It's such a shame. When I first went to
Orlando's first real lug, it was just about the most electrifying thing I'd
ever been to: people with a love of Linux, who usually knew (much) more than
me about it and other things, who taught me, enticed me, and challenged me to
be better at Linux. Now,... we seem to be lucky to get five people in the
same room. Not the same five faces all the time, but I know them, known most
of them for years. Our installfests have a better attendance, almost to the
point that I think we should lose our monthly meetings and just have our
installfests. And our lug is in much better shape that other lugs I've
visited around the country.
I still think lugs are the best thing about Linux, but the new folks getting
into Linux don't seem to have the same desire to be a lug member or to
contribute in ways that make a lug successful.
On Sunday 08 July 2007 02:56 am, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Attendance is *down*. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't know
> that you have to repair LUGs because their attendance is down. Times
> change, the market changes, conditions change. It's not the expense of
> getting to a meeting; gas isn't that expensive yet. If people don't
> come, then there's obviously nothing compelling enough to get them there.
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