[wellylug] Re. How others do it: CC-NZ (Douglas Bagnall)

[Pedro Worcel]

I think I read we need to make a new version of the website somewhere?

Getting together to think -> plan -> build something like that might be
good :)

Regarding the IRC, there's seven people now at wellilug at sitharus. Do we
have a freenode chan too?

Cheers!
Pedro


2013/3/16 Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com>

> There is a risk for a small group to try to be everything to everyone.
> It may result in being nothing to noone. I have received a lot of
> benefit from this mail group. Long may it continue. I would like to
> try an irc get-together if there was an active one.
>
> Regarding meetings, I feel that technical gatherings appeal to a very
> few specialists in that area and are not going to achieve critical
> mass to keep going.
> I have a attended a few meetings over the years, and as a
> comparatively non-technical and not very social being I felt rather
> excluded and slunk away feeling that I had let the group down, and
> that they had let me down. If there is to be public meetings they need
> to have someone who jumps up to welcome people in and offers tea and
> biccies and finds out why the person is there and what they expect
> from the group.
>
> It botheres me a lot that there must be hundreds, if not thousands of
> people in the
> Greater Wellington Area who would use Linux (probably Ubuntu) if they
> were introduced to it, given encouragement and had the feeling that
> someone would give them kind non-judgemental encouragement if things
> falter. I might be wrong but I think it is possible that there is a
> huge untapped 'market'.
>
> None of this takes things forward. It's just my thoughts.
>
> On 16/03/2013, Adam Bogacki <adam.bogacki at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > We are living in constantly changing labour markets and
> > in this day and age there are many ways to communicate
> > and support each other, when necessary, through different media.
> >
> >  An irc channel
> >
> > [# wellylug at irc.sitharus.com
> > or
> > ##wellylug on irc.freenode.net]
> >
> > is cost efficient for many and independent of the tyrannies of time or
> > distance,
> >
> > while others might wish to meet socially over some brewed or fermented
> > refreshment.
> >
> > I was at a Wellylug meeting at 'silverstripe' when a polite  gentleman
> > came in and
> > sat down introducing himself as Linus Torvalds. I think he was visiting
> > them and
> > had heard of the WellyLug meeting.
> >
> > I probably made a dick of myself refusing to believe it was him, but such
> > accidental encounters which make social life interesting are seldom
> > found online.
> >
> > In short, I'd argue for flexibility ..
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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