[wlug_org] NZLUG (Not a debate)

[Brent Wood]

Hi Ewen et al...

>
> Surely that way lies madness.  If NZLUG gets N (seemingly 2-3)
> announcements for every LUG meeting in New Zealand, and there are in
> the order of a couple of dozen LUG meetings in New Zealand (eg, 3 in
> the wellington region alone), then the NZLUG list will get one or more
> posts every day (on average) announcing some random user group meeting
> in some random location you can't get to.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to stick to announcing such things to people who
> have already expressed an interest?  And keep any mention on NZLUG to a
> "you can go here to find out about user group meetings".  People without
> PDAs to remind them can presumably subscribe to whatever existing
> announcement service there is.

Only a possible problem if virtually every LUG actually does this. We may be
better off encouraging the use of the resource, like for any NZLUG'ers who are
away from home it may be worth letting them know there is an upcoming meeting
somewhere. If it gets to be a problem we might need to rationalise, but I think
a list which invites Linux users to one or more meetings a month is a healthy
indication of the vibrancy of Linux in NZ. 

Which is largely what we are about. Isn't it? Maybe we should ask the NZLUG
list if they would like this?

Brent