[wellylug] [Pgug] WellyLUG rekindling

[Phil Daintree]

Yes all initiatives are good ... negativity kills initiative... I only recently
registered a facebook page - my wife is well into it with ipad etc. although she
has a puppy linux desktop. I am interested about the strong reactions to it
though. I wonder if we linux types like belonging to a minority tinkerers group
and actively eschew any mainstream ideas/software simply because it is
mainstream? I like to think I am open to good ideas irrespective of their
popularity but I may well actually like being in the tinkerer minority.
Improving access to our group would be good and FB/some other social networking
site makes sense in that regard IMHO.

Phil

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http://www.logicworks.co.nz

On 14 March 2013 at 11:23 Hugh Davenport <hugh at davenport.net.nz> wrote:
> I suggested fb cos I find meetup to suck. Any suggestions welcome
>
> Ian Beardslee <ian at karearea.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> >Eww seriously if FB is used as the primary, secondary or even tertiary
> >communication method you can count me out.
> >
> >As for mailing lists, if people think there is a need for change
> >https://onlinegroups.net could be an alternative. Might need to
> >convince
> >them that WellyLug would be a good thing to sponsor in terms of giving
> >a
> >free site.
> >
> >Not immediately sure of an alternative to FB for events organisation,
> >but
> >there has to be something that isn't going to steal our souls or our
> >first
> >born.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, March 14, 2013 9:43 am, Hugh Davenport wrote:
> >> The 90's loves me :D
> >>
> >> I will probably set up a fb account, and do events through there
> >> as well as advertising on a website of some form.
> >>
> >> I will probably keep the mailing list, though may take it away and
> >> redefine it slightly. For now, I'll probably keep the existing one
> >> until we actually have a meeting xD
> >>
> >> You should join
> >http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug
> >> if
> >> you aren't already on there
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Hugh
> >>
> >> On 2013-03-13 16:52, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> >>> My suggestions:
> >>>
> >>> 1. It's now 2013 and folks use Facebook, Twitter and Meetup.
> >>> The 90s called and want their mailing lists back.
> >>>
> >>> 2. If you're going to carry on using a mailing list, use someone
> >>> else's mail server. The Naos "no advertising at all" rule caused
> >>> a weekly flame war because apparently some eejit
> >>> decided that posting a Linux-related job URL, or saying,
> >>> "Hey does someone want to buy my spare graphics card for
> >>> ten bucks" counts as advertising. Honestly, this became
> >>> nearly half the content of the mailing list when I gave up
> >>> several years ago, and also, they're wrong.
> >>>
> >>> 3. Jethro is your friend, if he's still around, he's keen and
> >>> enthusiastic...
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> >>
> >>
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