*25th redraft, hopefully this one will get sent.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Paul Wayper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulway@mabula.net">paulway@mabula.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">On 09/01/2010 10:28 AM, James Polley wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Wayper <<a href="mailto:paulway@mabula.net">paulway@mabula.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> Anyway, what do people think?<br>
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</div>That's nice and all, but please contribute more than just "I added one line to<br>
your entire post and reposted it.<br>
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Seriously, what would you want</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This bit is easy.</div><div><br></div><div>I want an australian equivalent of <a href="http://lugs.org.uk/">http://lugs.org.uk/</a> - it seems incredibly wasteful for each LUG to manage their own hosting; but the hosting options LA currently offers don't quite match what I want for SLUG.</div>
<div>I want to start discussion about why LUGs exist as incorporated entities (where they do exist that way), instead of subcommittees of LA</div><div>I want to talk to other UGs about what meeting formats they use, how they entice people to participate in the community.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> to get out of a face-to-face meeting? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's the tricky bit; I don't see how a f2f meeting directly aids any of this. It offers less tangible benefits - I know some people from some LUGs, but most of the names in #linux-aus-lugs are just names, with maybe a static photo attached. Any of these discussions would be easier to have if I knew the people I was talking to better, but I don't think being together while having the discussion is necessarily necessary</div>
<div><br></div><div>In some specific cases - say, a hack weekend to get lug-in-a-box to where I want it - there's some amount of utility in having participants physically together, but I can't convince myself the cost is always justified.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">As a<br>
Linux Australia member (if you are one) what would you expect for the money?<br>
Why should Linux Australia fly you to Alice Springs to meet up with other LUG<br>
organisers? :-)<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
Have fun,<br>
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Paul<br>
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