[wellylug] Very Important: Meeting of 13th Feb 2005

[Mark Foster]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:14:21PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote:
>> The 'Linux Users Group' concept is alive-and-well, world wide.  How many
>> 'Microsoft Users Groups' are there?
>
> Well, there are active "Apple User Groups" everywhere, and there seem to
> be a lot of "PC User Groups" still in existance ... which by default
> give the impression of being MS groups ...

Hmm, the Apple stuff I believe. 'PC' user groups still strikes me as plain 
old 'computer enthusiasts'.  To me its always going to be the 'minority' 
OS's that'll draw specific user groups, and the 'others' will have 
specialised ones.  And I dare say that as people migrate from one OS to 
the other, theyll go from the generic to the specialised. (And hopefully 
bring friends!)

But seriously. I've been into computers for years, but I never was 
involved in a computing user group of any sort prior to coming across the 
LUG concept. Maybe that limits my experience... or maybe its 
representative of the fact that user groups for MS really aren't that 
common.

I still think the user group should be based on OS, and 'by the users for 
the users' as has been said elsewhere... so by that very meaning, WellyLUG 
has a strong future.

Mark.