[wellylug] WellyLUG Future

[Michael Coleman]

yes, it's disappointing to hear.

For anyone interested here is an archive snapshot of how the wellylug
website looked in its early days:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040605131123/http://wellylug.org.nz:80/

I think this webpage captures the enthusiasm typical of many linux users -
these guys actually have dedicated a section of the webpage trying to
convince visitors why you should use linux! hah, nice.

I would have been happy to commit some significant time into wellylug, but
as Hugh mentioned, if there aren't people keen to talk or turn up, so you
end up having the same 1 or 2  people giving talks, which I don't think is
a great experience for attendees.

Hard to know why the enthusiasm isn't manifest like it used to be, possibly?

* linux users are too much of a minority
* hard to get talks that aren't kind of "distro" specific.
* maybe linux has matured to the point that people no longer need help with
hardware and installing? :)

I've been to a couple of the WOSSATs and I would also recommend it to linux
users who are interested in the wider opensource ecosystem. I think Grant
and Donovan and co have been doing a great job with that.

Thanks Hugh for your great work, and other wellylug people who have turned
up and give talks, I've really enjoyed the meetups I've been to.
Hugh, if you need help with archiving website or whatever, I'm happy to
help out.
thanks


On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Hugh Davenport <hugh at davenport.net.nz>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> It is with a bit of difficultly that I have decided that I am retiring
> WellyLUG for the foreseeable
> future. Reasons behind this have included small turn out, lack of
> speakers, and personal time. I
> have found myself that the group has been absolutely great to run, and
> have met a bunch of cool
> people and heard many great talks.
>
> I have run it for a few years now (I think 5?), which I picked up after a
> long lapse from its beginnings
> way back when I was ---- this tall. Hopefully sometime in the future
> someone can pick it up and try
> rekindle it again.
>
> In the meantime, there is a new user group called "Wellington Open Source
> Show And Tell"
> (https://wossat.nz) which has meetings which alternate between the 3rd
> Tuesday and the 3rd Thursday of
> each month. I would imagine that the current members of WellyLUG would fit
> right in with this user
> group as it follows a similar set of topics to which we have had in
> WellyLUG. I'm bound to be there
> myself from time to time as well so I will see you there.
>
> If you have any questions about the above, feel free to contact me
> directly, or reply to the list. The
> mailing list I plan to keep around for general discussions about the linux
> community.ts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hugh
>
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