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