<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I think I read we need to make a new version of the website somewhere?<br><br>Getting together to think -> plan -> build something like that might be good :)<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Regarding the IRC, there's seven people now at wellilug@sitharus. Do we have a freenode chan too?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Cheers!<br>Pedro<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/3/16 Jeff Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffhunt90@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffhunt90@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There is a risk for a small group to try to be everything to everyone.<br>
It may result in being nothing to noone. I have received a lot of<br>
benefit from this mail group. Long may it continue. I would like to<br>
try an irc get-together if there was an active one.<br>
<br>
Regarding meetings, I feel that technical gatherings appeal to a very<br>
few specialists in that area and are not going to achieve critical<br>
mass to keep going.<br>
I have a attended a few meetings over the years, and as a<br>
comparatively non-technical and not very social being I felt rather<br>
excluded and slunk away feeling that I had let the group down, and<br>
that they had let me down. If there is to be public meetings they need<br>
to have someone who jumps up to welcome people in and offers tea and<br>
biccies and finds out why the person is there and what they expect<br>
from the group.<br>
<br>
It botheres me a lot that there must be hundreds, if not thousands of<br>
people in the<br>
Greater Wellington Area who would use Linux (probably Ubuntu) if they<br>
were introduced to it, given encouragement and had the feeling that<br>
someone would give them kind non-judgemental encouragement if things<br>
falter. I might be wrong but I think it is possible that there is a<br>
huge untapped 'market'.<br>
<br>
None of this takes things forward. It's just my thoughts.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 16/03/2013, Adam Bogacki <<a href="mailto:adam.bogacki@clear.net.nz">adam.bogacki@clear.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> We are living in constantly changing labour markets and<br>
> in this day and age there are many ways to communicate<br>
> and support each other, when necessary, through different media.<br>
><br>
> An irc channel<br>
><br>
> [# wellylug at <a href="http://irc.sitharus.com" target="_blank">irc.sitharus.com</a><br>
> or<br>
> ##wellylug on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>]<br>
><br>
> is cost efficient for many and independent of the tyrannies of time or<br>
> distance,<br>
><br>
> while others might wish to meet socially over some brewed or fermented<br>
> refreshment.<br>
><br>
> I was at a Wellylug meeting at 'silverstripe' when a polite gentleman<br>
> came in and<br>
> sat down introducing himself as Linus Torvalds. I think he was visiting<br>
> them and<br>
> had heard of the WellyLug meeting.<br>
><br>
> I probably made a dick of myself refusing to believe it was him, but such<br>
> accidental encounters which make social life interesting are seldom<br>
> found online.<br>
><br>
> In short, I'd argue for flexibility ..<br>
><br>
> Cheers.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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