[wellylug] WellyLUG Future

[Jethro Carr]

hi Hugh,

Thanks for reviving it and running for a number of years.

The combined efforts of WOSSAT sounds promising, a good way to build a wider open source community that can pull from a larger audience of speakers and attendees.

regards,
Jethro

> On 27/04/2018, at 15:41, 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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