[Charlug] [chipper@llamas.net: [Linux] Meetings, Speakers, and Topics. Oh My!]

[Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio]

This is an email I just sent to my old LUG in Ft. Lauderdale (flux.org), call
it a LUGManifesto.  Perhaps it belongs in a wiki for collaborative
improvement?

speaking of the items below.  any progress on the website?  can it have a
wiki component so we can move the content from my personal site to charlugs? 

Chip

----- Forwarded message from Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio <chipper at llamas.net> -----

From: Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio <chipper at llamas.net>
To: linux at flux.org
Subject: [Linux] Meetings, Speakers, and Topics.  Oh My!
Reply-To: linux at flux.org
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:13:39 -0400


Adam, et al

I escaped florida and have been in Charlotte, NC since fall of 2006 and just
in the past two months did CharLUG revive.  Along those lines I have a couple
ideas on improving your chances of keeping these meetings moving along.

It has suprised me all these years that there is such a shortage of
professionals willing to give talks in such a densly populated area.

1.  Don't Cancel Meetings.

   Adam, do you remember the first meeting I came to?  It was at the diner.
   Move your meetings to someplace close were coffee and/or dinner can be had,
   and just have a bull session.  Or focus on what people want to hear and who
   is able to do the talks.  No meeting means no progress, no growth. 
2.  Collaborative Class Guides

   We had a bull session to find out what folks could talk about, what they
   wanted to learn about.  I volunteered to do a lab on setting up Nagios.
   Something else we are moving forward with is dovetailing a short class on
   RHCE prep topics after the main meeting.  I've got a life here and can't do
   everything myself, so I created a Wiki Page so I could enable the other
   volunteers to contribute to the study guides.  This would enhance your
   website, further making it a desirable destination, improve your pagerank,
   and hopefully draw in more members of all calibres

3.  Update your website

   Sorry, that MyUserGroup2 might have seemed like a great idea in 2003, not
   so much anymore.  Look at ANYTHING else.  I have always used GeekLog and now
   the fork GLFusion for blog-type sites.  GLFusion now has Media Gallery, Wiki,
   Calendar, Forums, and more included.

4.  Promote all OSS
     Add all the other local OSS UG meeting information to your websites
   calendar. OpenSolaris, PHP, Perl, usenix, java, etc.  Add dates of
   conferences and promote road trips to the local florida cons (forums would be
   good for this).


The theme:  It is the age of social networking, stay relevant by leveraging
modern technologies to strengthen your community.


Chip (better than a .procmailrc killfile demo, eh?)


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